Intel Core i3-8109U vs AMD FX-4100

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1204 points
1255 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2237 points
2361 points
5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

926 points
952 points
2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

888 points
914 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.82 points
33% slightly higher Blender score
18.53 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2371 points
80% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1317 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1117 points
135% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
474 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2453 points
145% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1001 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1187 points
198% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
398 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
3.6 GHz
20% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
3.8 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

28 W
239% significantly lower TDP
95 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

128 KiB
192 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
2 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

927th of 1,121
908th of 1,121

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i3
FX 4-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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