AMD FX-8370 vs Intel Core i7-3770S

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 i7-3770S

Price

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$ 288.02

$ 158.02

$ 130.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2556 points

2590 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3746 points

4291 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2176 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

2091 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2091 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

2007 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.47 points

45.01 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2035 points

2217 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

491 points

672 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points

2227 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

494 points

657 points

32% 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

29% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 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

65 W

92% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

614th of 1,089

609th 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 i7-3770S comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-3770S performs better than the FX-8370. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8370 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount 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 i7-3770S. Also, the FX-8370 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3770S 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.