Intel Core i5-7300HQ vs AMD FX-8370

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i5 4 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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AMD FX-8370

Price

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$ 1738.00

$ 288.02

$ 1449.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2070 points

2556 points

23% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3797 points

1% slightly better gaming score

3746 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1588 points

2176 points

37% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1528 points

2091 points

36% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

39.14 points

43.47 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2896 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2035 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1058 points

115% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

491 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3044 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1998 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1119 points

126% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

494 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

4 GHz

60% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

4.3 GHz

22% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

177% significantly lower TDP

125 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

8 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

708th of 1,089

614th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-7300HQ vs FX-8370 comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-8370 beats the Core i5-7300HQ in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-7300HQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the FX-8370 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8370 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7300HQ. Also, the FX-8370 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-7300HQ CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8370 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8370 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-7300HQ. The FX-8370 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. For instance, the Core i5-7300HQ has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.