Intel Core i7-3537U vs AMD FX-9800P

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs AMD 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

830 points
8% slightly better overall score
763 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1588 points
10% slightly better gaming score
1432 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

626 points
7% slightly better multitasking score
581 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

600 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score
559 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

10.36 points
17.61 points
70% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

874 points
1113 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

436 points
514 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

968 points
1121 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

484 points
495 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.00 GHz
2.7 GHz
34% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.25 MiB
2 MiB
700% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

996th of 1,089
1,014th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-3537U vs FX-9800P comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-3537U performs better than the FX-9800P. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-9800P in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the FX-9800P has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i7-3537U that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-9800P has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3537U. The info from our database shows that the FX-9800P has more L2 cache than the Core i7-3537U

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-3537U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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