Intel Core i5-4300M vs AMD FX-9830P

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i5 2 core CPU vs AMD 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1314 points
1362 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2638 points
2% slightly better gaming score
2574 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

972 points
1031 points
6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

937 points
990 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1708 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1621 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

844 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
636 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1842 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1465 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

949 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
613 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
3 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

867th of 1,089
849th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 November
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-4300M vs FX-9830P comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-4300M beats the FX-9830P in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-9830P in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the FX-9830P has significantly more cores than the Core i5-4300M. Indeed, the FX-9830P has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-4300M. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-9830P has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4300M.

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 i5-4300M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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