Intel Core i7-3770 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

$ 174.85
$ 37.17 slightly less expensive
$ 212.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2576 points
19% slightly better overall score
2163 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4117 points
27% slightly better gaming score
3237 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2121 points
16% slightly better multitasking score
1826 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2038 points
16% slightly better heavy workload score
1753 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.88 points
33% 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

3.40 GHz
3% slightly higher clock speed
3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
4.3 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W
23% slightly lower TDP
95 W

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

8 MiB
Identical
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

618th of 1,098
696th of 1,098

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 i7-3770 vs FX-8370E specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3770 is faster than the FX-8370E. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8370E in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3770 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-8370E. Despite this, the FX-8370E has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-3770 CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8370E CPU because of its slightly 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-8370E has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-3770. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 i7-3770 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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