AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Core i7-4710HQ

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

2% slightly better overall score

2150 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

3517 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

1748 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

1675 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

48.71 points

38% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points

2985 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

965 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

3089 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

1009 points

119% 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

32% slightly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

20% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

47 W

102% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

681st of 1,089

696th 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

2014 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 i7-4710HQ comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8300 performs better than the Core i7-4710HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4710HQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number 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 i7-4710HQ.

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.