AMD FX-8320 vs Intel Core i7-4850HQ

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

6% slightly better overall score

2386 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points

4177 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2159 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

1866 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2072 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

1778 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points

51.15 points

34% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1814 points

3194 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points

928 points

101% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1791 points

3202 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points

999 points

118% 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

52% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

14% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 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

645th 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 August

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 i7-4850HQ comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-4850HQ performs better than the FX-8320. Despite this, the FX-8320 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4850HQ. The Core i7-4850HQ 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.