Intel Core i5-7300U vs AMD FX-8320E

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i5 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1153 points

2342 points

103% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2228 points

3438 points

54% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

867 points

1993 points

129% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

833 points

1917 points

130% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.58 points

36.00 points

46% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

3.2 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

4 GHz

14% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

910th of 1,089

651st 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

DDR4-2133

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-7300U vs FX-8320E benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8320E is faster than the Core i5-7300U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7300U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the FX-8320E has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-7300U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7300U. Our comparison shows that the FX-8320E has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7300U. A Core i5-7300U CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8320E CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-7300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.