AMD FX-8350 vs Intel Core i7-3740QM

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

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Intel Core i7-3740QM

Price

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$ 164.99

$ 2087.01 significantly less expensive

$ 2252.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points

5% slightly better overall score

2493 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points

3957 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

2061 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

1979 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

43.44 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points

0.45% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2018 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points

611 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points

1995 points

0.30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points

599 points

22% slightly 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

4 GHz

48% significantly higher clock speed

2.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

45 W

177% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

605th of 1,089

629th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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-8350 vs Core i7-3740QM comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8350 is faster than the Core i7-3740QM. Despite this, the Core i7-3740QM has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8350 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3740QM.

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-8350 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.