AMD FX-8320 vs Intel Core i7-12700H

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 14 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

2534 points

7424 points

192% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points

9222 points

149% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2159 points

6907 points

219% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2072 points

6820 points

229% significantly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2853 points

7238 points

153% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points

194.62 points

412% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

250% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

150% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

52% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.7 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

45 W

177% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

1120 KiB

191% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

24 MiB

200% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

620th of 1,089

169th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

12th Generation Core i7

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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-8320 vs Core i7-12700H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12700H is faster than the FX-8320. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8320 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12700H has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the FX-8320 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-8320. Our comparison shows that the FX-8320 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700H. The Core i7-12700H outputs less heat than FX-8320 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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-8320 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.