AMD FX-8150 vs Intel Core i7-2760QM

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 68.02
$ 54.00 significantly less expensive
$ 122.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2289 points
7% slightly better overall score
2123 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3360 points
3444 points
2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1951 points
12% slightly better multitasking score
1738 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1878 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score
1671 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.07 points
5% slightly higher Blender score
33.27 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2396 points
68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1422 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

512 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
479 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1758 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1606 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

445 points
528 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

3.6 GHz
49% significantly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed
3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W
45 W
177% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

664th of 1,089
701st of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2011 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

FX-8150 vs Core i7-2760QM specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-2760QM performs better than the FX-8150. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8150 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-8150 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-2760QM. The Core i7-2760QM outputs less heat than FX-8150 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 FX-8150 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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