AMD FX-8320 vs Intel Core i7-2820QM

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 i7-2820QM

Price

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$ 104.04

$ 125.91 significantly less expensive

$ 229.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2534 points

14% slightly better overall score

2212 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points

6% slightly better gaming score

3474 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2159 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

1842 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2072 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

1774 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points

40% slightly higher Blender score

26.94 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1814 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1202 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points

520 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1791 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1622 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points

519 points

13% slightly 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

52% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

45 W

177% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

620th of 1,089

680th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

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 i7-2820QM comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8320 performs better than the Core i7-2820QM. Despite this, the Core i7-2820QM has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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-8320 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-2820QM. The Core i7-2820QM 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the FX-8320 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.