AMD FX-8320 vs Intel Core i7-4700HQ

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

7% slightly better overall score

2361 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points

4% slightly better gaming score

3542 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2159 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

2007 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2072 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

1927 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points

49.43 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1814 points

3084 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points

970 points

110% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1791 points

3055 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points

996 points

117% 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

45% significantly higher clock speed

2.4 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

47 W

165% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

620th of 1,089

649th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 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 i7-4700HQ comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8320 performs better than the Core i7-4700HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4700HQ in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores 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 i7-4700HQ. The Core i7-4700HQ 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.

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.