AMD FX-8320E vs Intel Pentium Gold G7400

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Pentium Gold G7400

Price

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$ 178.02

$ 114.96

$ 63.06 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2342 points

2% slightly better overall score

2278 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3438 points

4637 points

34% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1993 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

1677 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1917 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

1609 points

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Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1680 points

4134 points

146% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

437 points

1961 points

348% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

3.7 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

46 W

106% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

139% significantly more L1 cache

160 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

2.5 MiB

25% slightly more L2 cache

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

667th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-8320E vs Pentium Gold G7400 comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-8320E beats the Pentium Gold G7400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium Gold G7400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the FX-8320E has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium Gold G7400 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G7400. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium Gold G7400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-8320E. The info from our database shows that the Pentium Gold G7400 has more L2 cache than the FX-8320E. Despite this, the FX-8320E has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Pentium Gold G7400.

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.