Intel Core i7-3610QM vs AMD FX-8370E

Compare Intel Core 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 189.95
$ 22.07 slightly less expensive
$ 212.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1810 points
2163 points
19% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2981 points
3237 points
8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1464 points
1826 points
24% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1405 points
1753 points
24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.63 points
9% slightly higher Blender score
34.44 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz
3.3 GHz
43% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz
4.3 GHz
30% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
111% significantly lower TDP
95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

756th of 1,089
691st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i7-3610QM vs FX-8370E benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8370E performs better than the Core i7-3610QM. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3610QM in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8370E has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3610QM. Also, the FX-8370E has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-3610QM CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8370E 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 i7-3610QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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