AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Pentium Gold G7400

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 98.02
$ 16.94 slightly less expensive
$ 114.96

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points
2278 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points
4637 points
39% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points
11% slightly better multitasking score
1677 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points
11% slightly better heavy workload score
1609 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points
4134 points
140% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points
1961 points
327% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
3.7 GHz
12% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
46 W
106% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
139% significantly more L1 cache
160 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
220% significantly more L2 cache
2.5 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
667th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition
Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

FX-8300 vs Pentium Gold G7400 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Gold G7400 beats the FX-8300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8300 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the FX-8300 has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold G7400. Indeed, the FX-8300 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium Gold G7400. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G7400. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium Gold G7400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-8300. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8300 has significantly more L2 cache than the Pentium Gold G7400. The FX-8300 also has slightly more 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.

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