AMD FX-8370E 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

2163 points

3147 points

45% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3237 points

4989 points

54% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1826 points

2595 points

42% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1753 points

2494 points

42% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.44 points

64.47 points

87% significantly higher Blender 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

3.3 GHz

17% 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

95 W

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

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

691st of 1,089

518th of 1,089

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-8370E vs Ryzen 5 7520U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-8370E beats the Ryzen 5 7520U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7520U 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8370E has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U. The info from our database shows that the FX-8370E has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7520U. The FX-8370E 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-8370E has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.