AMD FX-9370 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

2779 points

3147 points

13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4131 points

4989 points

20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2350 points

2595 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2255 points

2494 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

51.74 points

64.47 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2031 points

3685 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

514 points

1171 points

127% 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

57% significantly higher clock speed

2.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

9% slightly higher turbo speed

4.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

220 W

15 W

1366% 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

575th 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

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-9370 vs Ryzen 5 7520U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7520U is faster than the FX-9370. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-9370 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-9370 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U. Also, the FX-9370 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7520U 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 info from our database shows that the FX-9370 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7520U. The FX-9370 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-9370 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.