AMD FX-9370 vs Intel Core i7-4790K

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-4790K

Price

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$ 212.02

$ 71.10 significantly less expensive

$ 283.12

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2779 points

3124 points

12% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4131 points

5019 points

21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2350 points

2564 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2255 points

2462 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

51.74 points

73.53 points

42% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2272 points

4415 points

94% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

545 points

1357 points

148% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2031 points

4402 points

116% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

514 points

1403 points

172% 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

4.4 GHz

10% slightly higher clock speed

4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

220 W

88 W

150% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

575th of 1,089

520th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-9370 vs Core i7-4790K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4790K is faster than the FX-9370. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-9370 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-9370 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4790K. The Core i7-4790K 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the FX-9370 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.