Intel Core i7-7600U vs AMD FX-8300

Compare Intel 7th 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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AMD FX-8300

Price

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$ 3235.00

$ 98.02

$ 3136.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1234 points

2211 points

79% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2391 points

3316 points

38% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

922 points

1866 points

102% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

882 points

1792 points

103% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.63 points

35.10 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz

3.3 GHz

17% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

4.2 GHz

7% 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

892nd of 1,089

681st of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i7

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

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

Core i7-7600U vs FX-8300 comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-8300 beats the Core i7-7600U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7600U 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 i7-7600U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7600U. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-7600U.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-7600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.