AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Core i7-3820QM

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 i7-3820QM

Price

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$ 98.02

$ 400.98 significantly less expensive

$ 499.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

15% slightly better overall score

1913 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

8% slightly better gaming score

3059 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

1573 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

18% slightly better heavy workload score

1510 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

41.56 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points

2717 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

717 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

2007 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

602 points

31% 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

22% slightly higher clock speed

2.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 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

733rd 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 i7-3820QM benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8300 performs better than the Core i7-3820QM. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3820QM in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-8300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3820QM.

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.