AMD FX-8370 vs Intel Core i7-3820

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-3820

Price

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$ 288.02

$ 61.86 slightly less expensive

$ 349.88

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2556 points

2718 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3746 points

4152 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2176 points

2278 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2091 points

2189 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.47 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

38.29 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2035 points

2358 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

491 points

613 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points

2306 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

494 points

624 points

26% 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

11% slightly higher clock speed

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

4% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

614th of 1,089

583rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-8370 vs Core i7-3820 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3820 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8370 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3820. Also, the FX-8370 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A FX-8370 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-3820 CPU because of its slightly 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.