AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Core i7-4702MQ

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-4702MQ

Price

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$ 98.02

$ 191.93 significantly less expensive

$ 289.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

6% slightly better overall score

2075 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

0.30% slightly better gaming score

3306 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

1711 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

1645 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

44.49 points

26% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points

2821 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

919 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

2949 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

956 points

108% 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

49% significantly higher clock speed

2.20 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

31% slightly higher turbo speed

3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

37 W

156% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

3100% significantly more L2 cache

0.25 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

681st of 1,089

707th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 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 i7-4702MQ comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8300 performs better than the Core i7-4702MQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4702MQ 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 FX-8300 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4702MQ. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8300 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-4702MQ. The FX-8300 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.