AMD FX-8370 vs Intel Core i5-4690K

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-4690K

Price

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$ 288.02

$ 161.43

$ 126.59 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2556 points

2% slightly better overall score

2483 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3746 points

4619 points

23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2176 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

1885 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2091 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

1808 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.47 points

52.71 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2035 points

3635 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

491 points

1267 points

158% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points

3649 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

494 points

1305 points

164% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz

14% slightly higher clock speed

3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

3.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

88 W

42% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

614th of 1,089

632nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2014 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-8370 vs Core i5-4690K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-4690K is faster than the FX-8370. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8370 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the FX-8370 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-8370 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4690K. Also, the FX-8370 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-4690K outputs less heat than FX-8370 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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-8370 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.