Intel Core i5-7200U vs AMD FX-4300

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i5 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-4300

Price

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$ 1956.00

$ 49.00

$ 1907.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1237 points

1352 points

9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2443 points

2531 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

922 points

1026 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

885 points

986 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

22.30 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

17.26 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1316 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1076 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

508 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

434 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

2.5 GHz

3.8 GHz

52% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.1 GHz

4 GHz

29% slightly higher turbo 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

913th of 1,118

878th of 1,118

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

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 i5-7200U vs FX-4300 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-4300 is faster than the Core i5-7200U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7200U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-4300 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-7200U. Also, the FX-4300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-7200U CPU outputs less heat than a FX-4300 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-7200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.