AMD FX-8320E vs AMD Athlon X4 760K

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs AMD 2 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

2342 points
67% significantly better overall score
1399 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3438 points
30% slightly better gaming score
2628 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1993 points
87% significantly better multitasking score
1061 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1917 points
88% significantly better heavy workload score
1018 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.00 points
86% significantly higher Blender score
19.35 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1615 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1399 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

434 points
502 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1680 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1117 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

437 points
458 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
3.8 GHz
18% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
24.26 MiB
1113% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

651st of 1,089
840th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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FX-8320E vs Athlon X4 760K specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8320E performs better than the Athlon X4 760K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon X4 760K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the FX-8320E has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon X4 760K has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon X4 760K. Our comparison shows that the Athlon X4 760K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-8320E. In terms of cache, the Athlon X4 760K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the FX-8320E

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-8320E has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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