Intel Core i7-870 vs AMD FX-8320E

Compare Intel Core 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-8320E

Price

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$ 163.04

$ 14.98 slightly less expensive

$ 178.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1923 points

2342 points

21% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3090 points

3438 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1576 points

1993 points

26% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1513 points

1917 points

26% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.74 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

36.00 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1563 points

1615 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

485 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

434 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1550 points

1680 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

475 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

437 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

2.93 GHz

3.2 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

732nd of 1,089

651st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 August

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-870 vs FX-8320E benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8320E is faster than the Core i7-870. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-870 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8320E has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-870. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i7-870 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.