Intel Core i7-7500U vs AMD FX-8300

Core i7-7500U vs FX-8300 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-8300 beats the Core i7-7500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7500U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the FX-8300 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i7-7500U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7500U. Our comparison shows that the FX-8300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-7500U.

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 i7-7500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.