AMD FX-8370 vs Intel Core i7-3720QM

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 i7-3720QM

Price

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$ 288.02

$ 99.95

$ 188.07 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2556 points

21% slightly better overall score

2112 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3746 points

7% slightly better gaming score

3499 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2176 points

27% slightly better multitasking score

1701 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2091 points

28% slightly better heavy workload score

1632 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.47 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

42.68 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2035 points

0.10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2033 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

491 points

602 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1978 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

494 points

586 points

18% 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

53% significantly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

19% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

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

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

614th of 1,089

703rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2012 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 i7-3720QM specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-8370 beats the Core i7-3720QM in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-3720QM 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-8370 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3720QM. Also, the FX-8370 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3720QM 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.

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