AMD FX-8370 vs Intel Core i7-3770K

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 i7-3770K

Price

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$ 288.02

$ 56.87 slightly less expensive

$ 344.89

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2556 points

2702 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3746 points

4366 points

16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2176 points

2208 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2091 points

2118 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.47 points

47.21 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2035 points

2474 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

491 points

708 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points

2489 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

494 points

709 points

43% significantly 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

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

77 W

62% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

614th of 1,089

588th 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 i7-3770K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3770K beats the FX-8370 in overall performance. 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 and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-8370 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3770K. Also, the FX-8370 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3770K 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.