Intel Core i7-10700 vs AMD FX-8300

Core i7-10700 vs FX-8300 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10700 beats the FX-8300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8300 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-10700 has significantly more cores than the FX-8300. Indeed, the Core i7-10700 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the FX-8300. It also has more threads than the FX-8300. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10700. Despite this, the Core i7-10700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-10700 CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8300 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the FX-8300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-10700. Despite this, the Core i7-10700 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-8300.

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 i7-10700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.