AMD FX-8320E vs Intel Core i7-3940XM

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-3940XM

Price

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$ 178.02

$ 166.02 significantly less expensive

$ 344.04

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2342 points

2439 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3438 points

3946 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1993 points

0.05% slightly better multitasking score

1992 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1917 points

0.21% slightly better heavy workload score

1913 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.00 points

48.88 points

35% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1615 points

2994 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

434 points

793 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1680 points

2039 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

437 points

644 points

47% 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

3.2 GHz

3.20 GHz

0.03% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

55 W

72% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

0.25 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

651st of 1,089

638th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2012 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-8320E vs Core i7-3940XM specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-3940XM performs better than the FX-8320E. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8320E in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3940XM has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-8320E. Despite this, the FX-8320E has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3940XM outputs less heat than FX-8320E 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-8320E has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-3940XM. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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