Intel Core i5-4310M 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

1246 points

1362 points

9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2481 points

2574 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

926 points

1031 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

889 points

990 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1697 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1621 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

859 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

636 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1883 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1465 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1000 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

613 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.7 GHz

3 GHz

11% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

886th of 1,089

849th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-4310M vs FX-9830P specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-4310M is faster than the FX-9830P. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-9830P in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the FX-9830P has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-4310M has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-9830P has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4310M.

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 i5-4310M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.