AMD FX-8320 vs Intel Core i7-4900MQ

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 i7-4900MQ

Price

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$ 104.04

$ 95.96 significantly less expensive

$ 200.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2534 points

9% slightly better overall score

2307 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points

3862 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2159 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

1859 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2072 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

1784 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points

54.97 points

44% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1814 points

2842 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points

933 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1791 points

3402 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points

1123 points

145% 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

24% slightly higher clock speed

2.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 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

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

620th of 1,089

659th 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 i7-4900MQ benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8320 is faster than the Core i7-4900MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4900MQ 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 slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4900MQ. Also, the FX-8320 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4900MQ 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. In terms of cache, the FX-8320 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-4900MQ. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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.