AMD FX-8150 vs Intel Core i7-4870HQ

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 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

2289 points

0.18% slightly better overall score

2285 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3360 points

3638 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1951 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

1884 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1878 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

1806 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.07 points

57.01 points

62% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2396 points

2877 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

512 points

870 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1758 points

3685 points

109% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

445 points

1136 points

155% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

44% significantly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

47 W

165% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

664th of 1,089

666th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-8150 vs Core i7-4870HQ comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8150 performs better than the Core i7-4870HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4870HQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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-8150 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4870HQ. The Core i7-4870HQ 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.

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 FX-8150 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.