Intel Core i3-7020U vs AMD FX-4100

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i3 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-4100

Price

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$ 1126.00

$ 390.00

$ 736.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

999 points

1255 points

25% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1994 points

2361 points

18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

740 points

952 points

28% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

710 points

914 points

28% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.70 points

0.94% slightly higher Blender score

18.53 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1475 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1317 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

726 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

474 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1491 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1001 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

734 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

398 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

3.6 GHz

56% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

948th of 1,089

882nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i3

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-7020U vs FX-4100 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-4100 beats the Core i3-7020U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-7020U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-4100 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-7020U.

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 Core i3-7020U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.