AMD FX-8350 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 164.99
$ 95.00 significantly less expensive
$ 259.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points
15% slightly better overall score
2277 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points
5% slightly better gaming score
3688 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points
21% slightly better multitasking score
1839 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points
21% slightly better heavy workload score
1764 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points
44% significantly higher Blender score
32.04 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
33% slightly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz
22% slightly higher clock speed
3.26 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

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

605th of 1,089
668th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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FX-8350 vs Phenom II X6 1100T specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8350 performs better than the Phenom II X6 1100T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1100T in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1100T 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 1100T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X6 1100T. The info from our database shows that the FX-8350 has more L2 cache than the Phenom II X6 1100T. The FX-8350 also has slightly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the FX-8350 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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