AMD FX-8320 vs Intel Core i7-3610QM

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 i7-3610QM

Price

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$ 104.04

$ 85.91 significantly less expensive

$ 189.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2534 points

40% slightly better overall score

1810 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points

24% slightly better gaming score

2981 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2159 points

47% significantly better multitasking score

1464 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2072 points

47% significantly better heavy workload score

1405 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points

0.89% slightly higher Blender score

37.63 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1814 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1794 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points

531 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1791 points

1836 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points

539 points

17% 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

21% slightly higher turbo speed

3.3 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

756th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 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-8320 vs Core i7-3610QM comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8320 is faster than the Core i7-3610QM. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3610QM in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8320 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3610QM. The Core i7-3610QM 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.