Intel Core i5-7500 vs AMD FX-8320

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-8320

Price

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$ 73.80

$ 30.24 significantly less expensive

$ 104.04

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2458 points

2534 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4565 points

23% slightly better gaming score

3698 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1872 points

2159 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1797 points

2072 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2294 points

2853 points

24% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.70 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

37.97 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3409 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1814 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1243 points

169% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

461 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3533 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1791 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1283 points

180% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

458 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

3.4 GHz

3.5 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

4 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

92% significantly lower TDP

125 W

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

637th of 1,089

620th 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

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 i5-7500 vs FX-8320 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-8320 beats the Core i5-7500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-7500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the FX-8320 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-8320 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7500. A Core i5-7500 CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8320 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-8320 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-7500. The FX-8320 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 i5-7500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.