AMD FX-8320E vs Intel Core i7-4700MQ

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

2342 points

5% slightly better overall score

2226 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3438 points

3615 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1993 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

1813 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1917 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

1735 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.00 points

46.75 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1615 points

2898 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

434 points

961 points

121% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1680 points

3110 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

437 points

1019 points

133% 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

33% slightly higher clock speed

2.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

47 W

102% 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

33% slightly more L3 cache

6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

651st of 1,089

676th 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

2014 September

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-8320E vs Core i7-4700MQ comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8320E is faster than the Core i7-4700MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4700MQ 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. Our comparison shows that the FX-8320E has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4700MQ. The Core i7-4700MQ 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 info from our database shows that the FX-8320E has more L2 cache than the Core i7-4700MQ. The FX-8320E 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-8320E has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.