AMD Ryzen 7 3700U vs AMD FX-8370

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX Vega Graphics 4 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-8370

Price

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$ 1963.00

$ 288.02

$ 1674.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2551 points

2556 points

0.20% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4199 points

12% slightly better gaming score

3746 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2073 points

2176 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1989 points

2091 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.48 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

43.47 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2494 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2035 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

867 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

491 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2670 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1998 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

916 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

494 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

4 GHz

73% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.3 GHz

7% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

733% significantly lower TDP

125 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

8 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

8 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

615th of 1,089

614th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX Vega Graphics

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 3700U vs FX-8370 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 3700U is faster than the FX-8370. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8370 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-8370 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 3700U. A Ryzen 7 3700U CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8370 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the FX-8370 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 3700U. The FX-8370 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 Ryzen 7 3700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.