Intel Core i7-4700MQ vs AMD FX-8370E

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2226 points

2% slightly better overall score

2163 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3615 points

11% slightly better gaming score

3237 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1813 points

1826 points

0.72% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1735 points

1753 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.75 points

35% slightly higher Blender score

34.44 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.40 GHz

3.3 GHz

37% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

4.3 GHz

26% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

47 W

102% significantly lower TDP

95 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.25 MiB

8 MiB

3100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

676th of 1,089

691st of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 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

Core i7-4700MQ vs FX-8370E benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8370E is faster than the Core i7-4700MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4700MQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8370E has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4700MQ. Also, the FX-8370E has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4700MQ 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. In terms of cache, the FX-8370E has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-4700MQ. The FX-8370E also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i7-4700MQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.