FX-8350 vs i5 3550 / FX-6300 vs i3 3220
Now it's time to put the benchmark results side-by-side in order to get an overall impression. The FX-8350 will cost around £160, which is about the same as an Intel Core i5 3550. The differences vary from benchmark to benchmark. Overall, the results are in favour of AMD by an average of 4.3 percent. AMD performs the strongest in the multi-threaded benchmarks.
| Product name | Core i5 3550 | FX-8350 | Diff. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Higher = Beter | |||
| 3DMark Vantage - CPU Score | 19191 | 22213 | 15.7% |
| Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 DX11 [800x600 - Low] | 340 fps | 268 fps | -21.2% |
| Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 DX11 [1920x1080 - High] | 101 fps | 101 fps | 0.0% |
| Dirt 3 DX11 [800x600 - Low] | 226 fps | 167 fps | -26.1% |
| Dirt 3 DX11 [1920x1080 - High] | 113 fps | 114 fps | 0.9% |
| Crysis 2 DX9 [800x600 - High] | 228 fps | 234 fps | 2.6% |
| Crysis 2 DX9 [1920x1080 - High] | 98 fps | 101 fps | 2.6% |
| 720p MPEG2 to x264 - Pass 1 | 98 fps | 90 fps | -7.8% |
| 720p MPEG2 to x264 - Pass 2 | 31 fps | 42 fps | 35.6% |
| Cinebench 11.5 | 5.81 | 6.93 | 19.3% |
| TrueCrypt AES encryption | 609 MB/s | 951 MB/s | 56.2% |
| Lower = Beter | |||
| Hardware.Info Photoshop CS4 benchmark | 19 sec. | 26 sec. | -26.9% |
| Panorama Factory v5 - 8x12MP panorama | 68 sec. | 82 sec. | -17.1% |
| Cyberlink MediaShow Espresso 6.0 - 22 min. iPod video | 107 sec. | 124 sec. | -13.7% |
| Cyberlink PowerDirector 8 - 1 min. HD-video incl. effects | 253 sec. | 195 sec. | 29.7% |
| PovRay 3.7b37 - Chess 2 1024x768 | 35 sec. | 29 sec. | 18.8% |
| WinRAR 3.93 - 317 MB data | 25 sec. | 31 sec. | -19.4% |
| 7Zip - 317 MB data | 60 sec. | 61 sec. | -1.6% |
| Microsoft Excel 2010 - MonteCarlo benchmark | 7 sec. | 5 sec. | 34.2% |
| Total | |||
| Average | - | - | 4.3% |
It's also interesting to compare the 6-core FX-6300 to the similarly price Core i3 3240, but we never tested exactly that one. That is why we are instead comparing it to the slightly more affordable and slower Core i3 3220, which is clocked a 100 MHz less. In this comparison we arrive at an average performance difference of 31.6 percent which is quite a bit. In the multi-threaded benchmarks the differences exceeds 50 percent at times.
| Product nam | Core i3 3220 | FX-6300 | Diff. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Higher = Better | |||
| 3DMark Vantage - CPU Score | 11444 | 16888 | 47.6% |
| Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 DX11 [800x600 - Low] | 233 fps | 245 fps | 5.2% |
| Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 DX11 [1920x1080 - High] | 101 fps | 100 fps | -1.0% |
| Dirt 3 DX11 [800x600 - Low] | 149 fps | 166 fps | 11.5% |
| Dirt 3 DX11 [1920x1080 - High] | 113 fps | 113 fps | -0.8% |
| Crysis 2 DX9 [800x600 - High] | 188 fps | 232 fps | 23.2% |
| Crysis 2 DX9 [1920x1080 - High] | 98 fps | 100 fps | 2.2% |
| 720p MPEG2 to x264 - Pass 1 | 71 fps | 85 fps | 20.8% |
| 720p MPEG2 to x264 - Pass 2 | 19 fps | 34 fps | 77.5% |
| Cinebench 11.5 | 3.32 | 5.32 | 60.2% |
| TrueCrypt AES encryptie | 333 MB/s | 734 MB/s | 120.4% |
| Lower = Better | |||
| Hardware.Info Photoshop CS4 benchmark | 28 sec. | 28 sec. | 0.6% |
| Panorama Factory v5 - 8x12MP panorama | 125 sec. | 85 sec. | 47.1% |
| Cyberlink MediaShow Espresso 6.0 - 22 min. iPod video | 167 sec. | 127 sec. | 31.5% |
| Cyberlink PowerDirector 8 - 1 min. HD-video incl. effects | 298 sec. | 251 sec. | 18.7% |
| PovRay 3.7b37 - Chess 2 1024x768 | 58 sec. | 38 sec. | 53.6% |
| WinRAR 3.93 - 317 MB data | 34 sec. | 33 sec. | 3.0% |
| 7Zip - 317 MB data | 69 sec. | 62 sec. | 11.3% |
| Microsoft Excel 2010 - MonteCarlo benchmark | 11 sec. | 7 sec. | 67.6% |
| Total | |||
| Average | - | - | 31.6% |

