Intel Core i3-8145U vs AMD FX-4100

Compare Intel 8th 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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$ 1551.00

$ 390.00

$ 1161.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1258 points

0.24% slightly better overall score

1255 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2455 points

3% slightly better gaming score

2361 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

936 points

952 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

895 points

914 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23.95 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

18.53 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1575 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1317 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

794 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

474 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

2.1 GHz

3.6 GHz

71% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

533% 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

880th of 1,089

882nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i3

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-8145U vs FX-4100 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-8145U beats the FX-4100 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4100 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 i3-8145U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-4100 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-8145U. The FX-4100 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i3-8145U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.