AMD FX-8320 vs Intel Core i7-2700K

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 i7-2700K

Price

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$ 104.04

$ 85.84 significantly less expensive

$ 189.88

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2529 points

2597 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3688 points

3839 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2155 points

2213 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2068 points

2133 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points

44.33 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1814 points

2222 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points

627 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1791 points

2293 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points

672 points

46% 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

3.5 GHz

Identical

3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

95 W

31% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

640th of 1,118

629th of 1,118

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-8320 vs Core i7-2700K specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-2700K performs better than the FX-8320. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8320 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. According to our data, the FX-8320 and Core i7-2700K have the same clock speed. Despite this, the FX-8320 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-2700K outputs less heat than FX-8320 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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