AMD Phenom II X6 1100T vs AMD FX-8370E

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD FX-8370E

Price

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$ 259.99

$ 212.02

$ 47.97 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2277 points

5% slightly better overall score

2163 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3688 points

13% slightly better gaming score

3237 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1839 points

0.71% slightly better multitasking score

1826 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1764 points

0.63% slightly better heavy workload score

1753 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.04 points

34.44 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.26 GHz

3.3 GHz

1% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

8 MiB

166% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

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Ranking in the hardwareDB database

668th of 1,089

691st of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Phenom II X6 1100T vs FX-8370E benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8370E is faster than the Phenom II X6 1100T. Despite this, the Phenom II X6 1100T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the FX-8370E has 4 cores. Despite this, the FX-8370E has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1100T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8370E has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X6 1100T. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8370E has significantly more L2 cache than the Phenom II X6 1100T. The FX-8370E also has slightly 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. For instance, the Phenom II X6 1100T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.