AMD A8-5600K vs AMD FX-4300

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD FX-4300

Price

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$ 69.01

$ 49.00

$ 20.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

908 points

1352 points

48% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1895 points

2531 points

33% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

662 points

1026 points

54% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

637 points

986 points

54% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.11 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

17.26 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1047 points

1076 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

439 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

434 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1036 points

1111 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

425 points

453 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

100 W

95 W

5% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

979th of 1,089

855th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

A8-5600K vs FX-4300 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-4300 beats the A8-5600K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5600K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. The FX-4300 outputs less heat than A8-5600K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the A8-5600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.