Intel Core i7-8650U vs AMD FX-9370

Compare Intel 8th 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2006 points
2779 points
38% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3386 points
4131 points
22% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1610 points
2350 points
45% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1539 points
2255 points
46% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.01 points
51.74 points
14% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2710 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2272 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

895 points
64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
545 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

1.9 GHz
4.4 GHz
131% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
4.7 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
1366% significantly lower TDP
220 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
384 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache

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

715th of 1,089
575th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7
FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-8650U vs FX-9370 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-9370 beats the Core i7-8650U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8650U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-9370 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8650U. A Core i7-8650U 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-9370 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8650U. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 i7-8650U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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