Intel Core i3-7350K vs AMD FX-9370

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 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

$ 115.00
$ 97.02 significantly less expensive
$ 212.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1742 points
2779 points
59% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3492 points
4131 points
18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1292 points
2350 points
81% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1240 points
2255 points
81% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.64 points
51.74 points
41% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2667 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2272 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1197 points
119% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
545 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3026 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2031 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1496 points
191% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
514 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.2 GHz
4.4 GHz
4% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

60 W
266% significantly lower TDP
220 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

128 KiB
384 KiB
200% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
8 MiB
1500% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
8 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

768th of 1,089
575th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i3
FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Core i3-7350K vs FX-9370 comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-9370 beats the Core i3-7350K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-7350K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the FX-9370 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-7350K has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-7350K. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-9370 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-7350K. A Core i3-7350K CPU outputs less heat than a FX-9370 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the FX-9370 has more L2 cache than the Core i3-7350K. The FX-9370 also has significantly 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 Core i3-7350K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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