AMD FX-8300 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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Intel Core i7-2760QM

Price

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$ 98.02

$ 24.00 slightly less expensive

$ 122.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

4% slightly better overall score

2123 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

3444 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

1738 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

1671 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

33.27 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1422 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

479 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1606 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

528 points

15% slightly 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

3.3 GHz

37% slightly 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

95 W

45 W

111% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

699th of 1,118

720th of 1,118

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

FX-8300 vs Core i7-2760QM benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8300 is faster than the Core i7-2760QM. Despite this, the Core i7-2760QM has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-2760QM. Also, the FX-8300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-2760QM outputs less heat than FX-8300 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-8300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.