AMD FX-8370 vs Intel Core i7-4850HQ

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2556 points

7% slightly better overall score

2386 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3746 points

4177 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2176 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

1866 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2091 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

1778 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.47 points

51.15 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2035 points

3194 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

491 points

928 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points

3202 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

494 points

999 points

102% 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

73% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

22% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

47 W

165% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

614th of 1,089

645th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2013 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 i7-4850HQ benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4850HQ beats the FX-8370 in overall performance. Despite this, the FX-8370 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount 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 i7-4850HQ. Also, the FX-8370 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4850HQ 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.