Intel Core i7-6600U vs AMD FX-8320E

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 2 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

$ 2749.00
$ 178.02
$ 2570.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1166 points
2342 points
100% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2340 points
3438 points
46% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

858 points
1993 points
132% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

820 points
1917 points
133% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23.09 points
36.00 points
55% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
3.2 GHz
23% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
4 GHz
17% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
533% significantly lower TDP
95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

908th of 1,089
651st of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7
FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i7-6600U vs FX-8320E benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8320E is faster than the Core i7-6600U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6600U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the FX-8320E has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6600U. Indeed, the FX-8320E has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-6600U. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6600U. Our comparison shows that the FX-8320E has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6600U. A Core i7-6600U CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8320E CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-6600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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