AMD FX-8350 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs AMD 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Price

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$ 164.99

$ 148.04

$ 16.95 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points

16% slightly better overall score

2261 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points

6% slightly better gaming score

3641 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

1833 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

21% slightly better heavy workload score

1759 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

40% slightly higher Blender score

33.09 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz

25% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

166% significantly more L2 cache

3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

6 MiB

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Ranking in the hardwareDB database

605th of 1,089

671st of 1,089

Family

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FX 8-Core Black Edition

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-8350 vs Phenom II X6 1090T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8350 is faster than the Phenom II X6 1090T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1090T in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1090T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the FX-8350 that has 4 cores. Despite this, the FX-8350 has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1090T. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X6 1090T. The info from our database shows that the FX-8350 has more L2 cache than the Phenom II X6 1090T. The FX-8350 also has slightly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the FX-8350 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.