Intel Core i7-960 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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$ 150.00

$ 28.02 slightly less expensive

$ 178.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1995 points

2342 points

17% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3216 points

3438 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1629 points

1993 points

22% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1563 points

1917 points

22% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.27 points

36.00 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1700 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1615 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

503 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

434 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1672 points

1680 points

0.48% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

492 points

12% 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

3.2 GHz

Identical

3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.46 GHz

4 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

95 W

36% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

719th 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 November

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 i7-960 vs FX-8320E comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8320E is faster than the Core i7-960. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-960 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Core i7-960 and FX-8320E are identical in this regard. The FX-8320E outputs less heat than Core i7-960 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-960 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.