AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Core i7-3635QM

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

10% slightly better overall score

1992 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

16% slightly better gaming score

2853 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

1752 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

1708 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

38.51 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points

2446 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

636 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

1792 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

533 points

16% 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

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

720th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 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-8300 vs Core i7-3635QM benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-8300 beats the Core i7-3635QM in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3635QM 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 slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3635QM.

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.