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Intel Core i7-9700 vs AMD FX-8300

Last updated: 2026-06-05

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-9700

Rank 2 - 42 %

AMD FX-8300

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-9700

Rank 2 - 45 %

AMD FX-8300

Cinebench R20 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.70 GHz

465 cb

8C / 8T · 4.20 GHz

180 cb

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.70 GHz

1,218

8C / 8T · 4.20 GHz

517

Cinebench R20 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

3,644 cb

8C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

1,088 cb

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

6,714

8C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

2,311

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.70 GHz

524

8C / 8T · 4.20 GHz

217

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.00 GHz

3,725

8C / 8T · 3.30 GHz

1,289

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.70 GHz

209 cb

8C / 8T · 4.20 GHz

96 cb

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

1,491 cb

8C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

649 cb

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Monero Hashrate
94 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700	AMD FX-8300
Family	Intel Core i7 (300)	AMD FX (30)
CPU group	Intel Core i 9000 (34)	AMD FX-8000 (11)
Architecture	Coffee Lake S Refresh	Vishera (Bulldozer)
Technology	14 nm	32 nm
Segment	Desktop	Desktop
Socket	LGA 1151-2	AM3+
Predecessor	Intel Core i7-8700
Successor	Intel Core i7-10700

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700	AMD FX-8300
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	8x	8x
Frequency:	3.00 GHz	3.30 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	4.70 GHz	4.20 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	3.80 GHz	4.00 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	12.00 MB	8.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700	AMD FX-8300
GPU name	Intel UHD Graphics 630	no iGPU
GPU frequency	0.35 - 1.20 GHz
CUs / Shader	24 / 192	/
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3
Max. GPU Memory	64 GB
Technology	14 nm
Release date	Q4/2017

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700	AMD FX-8300
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700	AMD FX-8300
Memory	DDR4-2666 (42.7 GB/s)	DDR3-1866 (29.9 GB/s)
Max. Memory	128 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700	AMD FX-8300
TDP	65 W	95 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700	AMD FX-8300
Chip design	Monolithic	Unknown
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4
Release date	Q2/2019	Q2/2013
Release price	335 $
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i7-9700 is 3.8 stars (64 ratings), while AMD FX-8300 has received 4.2 stars (25 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i7-9700
8C / 8T · 3.00 - 4.70 GHz

★★★★★

AMD FX-8300
8C / 8T · 3.30 - 4.20 GHz

★★★★★