AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Core 7 150U

FX-8300 vs Core 7 150U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core 7 150U beats the FX-8300 in overall performance. Despite this, the FX-8300 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 7 150U has significantly more cores than the FX-8300. Indeed, the Core 7 150U has 10 cores compared to 4 cores found in the FX-8300. It also has more threads than the FX-8300. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 7 150U. In terms of cache, the FX-8300 has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core 7 150U. Despite this, the Core 7 150U has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-8300.

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-8300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.