AMD FX-9370 vs Intel Core i7-2600K

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-2600K

Price

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$ 212.02

$ 84.99

$ 127.03 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2779 points

8% slightly better overall score

2571 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4131 points

1% slightly better gaming score

4067 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2350 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

2123 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2255 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

2039 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

51.74 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

44.04 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2272 points

2292 points

0.88% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

545 points

665 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2031 points

2289 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

514 points

665 points

29% slightly 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

4.4 GHz

29% slightly higher clock speed

3.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

23% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

220 W

95 W

131% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

575th of 1,089

612th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-9370 vs Core i7-2600K comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-9370 beats the Core i7-2600K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2600K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-9370 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-2600K. The Core i7-2600K outputs less heat than FX-9370 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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-9370 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.