Intel Core i7-4702MQ 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 289.95
$ 212.02
$ 77.93 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2075 points
2163 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3306 points
2% slightly better gaming score
3237 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1711 points
1826 points
6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1645 points
1753 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.49 points
29% 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

2.20 GHz
3.3 GHz
49% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz
4.3 GHz
34% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

37 W
156% 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

707th 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

No
-

Core i7-4702MQ vs FX-8370E benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8370E is faster than the Core i7-4702MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4702MQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-8370E has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4702MQ. Also, the FX-8370E has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4702MQ 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8370E has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-4702MQ. 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 i7-4702MQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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