AMD FX-8370 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 2000 Series 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

2666 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3746 points

4273 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2176 points

2187 points

0.51% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2091 points

2096 points

0.24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.47 points

55.59 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points

2513 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

494 points

847 points

71% 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

81% significantly higher clock speed

2.2 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

15 W

733% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 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

614th of 1,089

600th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Ryzen PRO 2000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2017 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-8370 vs Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U performs better than the FX-8370. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8370 in all gaming tests too.

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 significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U. Also, the FX-8370 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U 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 Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U. The FX-8370 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.