Intel Core i7-4790 vs AMD FX-9370

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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AMD FX-9370

Price

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$ 98.75

$ 113.27 significantly less expensive

$ 212.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2865 points

3% slightly better overall score

2779 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4473 points

8% slightly better gaming score

4131 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2388 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

2350 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2298 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

2255 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

63.87 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

51.74 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3751 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2272 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1174 points

115% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

545 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3891 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2031 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1241 points

141% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

514 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

3.60 GHz

4.4 GHz

22% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.7 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W

161% significantly lower TDP

220 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

558th of 1,089

575th 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

2014 May

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 i7-4790 vs FX-9370 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4790 is faster than the FX-9370. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-9370 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. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-9370 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4790. A Core i7-4790 CPU outputs less heat than a FX-9370 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the FX-9370 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-4790. 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 i7-4790 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.