AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Core i7-3770

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 i7-3770

Price

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$ 98.02

$ 76.83 significantly less expensive

$ 174.85

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

2575 points

16% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

4118 points

24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

2119 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

2036 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

45.88 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points

2294 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

672 points

42% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

2315 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

673 points

46% 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

3.3 GHz

3.40 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

7% slightly higher turbo speed

3.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

77 W

23% slightly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

681st of 1,089

611th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

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 i7-3770 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3770 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3770 has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-8300. The info from our database shows that the FX-8300 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-3770. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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.