AMD FX-8370 vs Intel Pentium Gold 7505

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 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

52% significantly better overall score

1678 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3746 points

11% slightly better gaming score

3356 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2176 points

74% significantly better multitasking score

1245 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2091 points

75% significantly better heavy workload score

1193 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.47 points

64% significantly higher Blender score

26.38 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points

2566 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

494 points

1330 points

169% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

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

15 W

733% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

614th of 1,089

779th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2020 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-8370 vs Pentium Gold 7505 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium Gold 7505 performs better than the FX-8370. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8370 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the FX-8370 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium Gold 7505 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold 7505. The Pentium Gold 7505 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.