Intel Core i7-12700H vs AMD FX-8320E

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i7 14 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

7424 points

216% significantly better overall score

2342 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9222 points

168% significantly better gaming score

3438 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6907 points

246% significantly better multitasking score

1993 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6820 points

255% significantly better heavy workload score

1917 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

194.62 points

440% significantly higher Blender score

36.00 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

250% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

150% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

3.2 GHz

39% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

111% significantly lower TDP

95 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1120 KiB

191% significantly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB

200% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

169th of 1,089

651st of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-12700H vs FX-8320E comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12700H beats the FX-8320E in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8320E in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12700H has significantly more cores than the FX-8320E. Indeed, the Core i7-12700H has 14 cores compared to 4 cores found in the FX-8320E. It also has more threads than the FX-8320E. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8320E has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12700H. A Core i7-12700H 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.

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 i7-12700H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.