AMD FX-8370 vs Intel Core i7-4930MX

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 i7-4930MX

Price

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$ 288.02

$ 10.99 slightly less expensive

$ 299.01

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2556 points

3% slightly better overall score

2463 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3746 points

4049 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2176 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

2003 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2091 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

1926 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.47 points

50.02 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2035 points

3101 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

491 points

873 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points

3648 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

494 points

1251 points

153% 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

24% slightly higher clock speed

3.20 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

57 W

119% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

614th of 1,089

636th 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

2013 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 i7-4930MX comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-8370 beats the Core i7-4930MX in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-4930MX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8370 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4930MX. Also, the FX-8370 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4930MX 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 info from our database shows that the FX-8370 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-4930MX. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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.