AMD FX-8370 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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$ 288.02

$ 1963.98 significantly less expensive

$ 2252.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2556 points

2% slightly better overall score

2493 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3746 points

3957 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2176 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

2061 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2091 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

1979 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.47 points

0.06% slightly higher Blender score

43.44 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2035 points

0.84% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2018 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

491 points

611 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points

0.15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1995 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

494 points

599 points

21% 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

4.3 GHz

16% 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

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

614th 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

2014 September

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-8370 vs Core i7-3740QM comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-8370 beats the Core i7-3740QM in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-3740QM has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores 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 i7-3740QM. Also, the FX-8370 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3740QM 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.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the FX-8370 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.