AMD FX-8370 vs Intel Core i7-11800H

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i7 8 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

2556 points

6296 points

146% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3746 points

8432 points

125% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2176 points

5628 points

158% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2091 points

5474 points

161% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.47 points

150.35 points

245% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2035 points

8024 points

294% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

491 points

1892 points

285% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points

7795 points

290% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

494 points

1896 points

283% 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

4 GHz

73% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

4.6 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

45 W

177% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

768 KiB

100% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

24 MiB

200% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

614th of 1,089

236th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

11th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-8370 vs Core i7-11800H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11800H beats the FX-8370 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8370 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-11800H has significantly more cores than the FX-8370. Indeed, the Core i7-11800H has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the FX-8370. It also has more threads than the FX-8370. Our comparison shows that the FX-8370 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11800H. Despite this, the Core i7-11800H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-11800H outputs less heat than FX-8370 thanks to a significantly 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.