AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Core i7-2820QM

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 i7-2820QM

Price

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$ 98.02

$ 131.93 significantly less expensive

$ 229.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

2212 points

0.05% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

3474 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

1842 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

1774 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

26.94 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1202 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

520 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1622 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

519 points

13% 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

43% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

23% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 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

681st of 1,089

680th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

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 i7-2820QM comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-2820QM beats the FX-8300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8300 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-2820QM.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the FX-8300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.