AMD FX-8370 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 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

3089 points

20% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3746 points

4905 points

30% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2176 points

2545 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2091 points

2445 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.47 points

64.47 points

48% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points

3685 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

494 points

1171 points

137% 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

42% slightly higher clock speed

2.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

Identical

4.3 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

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

637th of 1,118

546th of 1,118

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-8370 vs Ryzen 5 7520U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7520U 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. Our comparison shows that the FX-8370 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Ryzen 5 7520U 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. In terms of cache, the FX-8370 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U. The FX-8370 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.