AMD FX-8320 vs Intel Core i7-4800MQ

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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Intel Core i7-4800MQ

Price

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$ 104.04

$ 45.91 significantly less expensive

$ 149.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2534 points

5% slightly better overall score

2395 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points

3995 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2159 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

1928 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2072 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

1851 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points

48.93 points

28% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1814 points

2555 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points

914 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1791 points

3174 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points

1063 points

132% 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

29% slightly higher clock speed

2.70 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

47 W

165% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

620th of 1,089

644th 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 i7-4800MQ specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4800MQ is faster than the FX-8320. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8320 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8320 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4800MQ. The Core i7-4800MQ 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8320 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-4800MQ. The FX-8320 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.