Intel Core i5-7400 vs AMD FX-4100

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i5 4 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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$ 59.00

$ 331.00 significantly less expensive

$ 390.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2237 points

78% significantly better overall score

1255 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4164 points

76% significantly better gaming score

2361 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1701 points

78% significantly better multitasking score

952 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1632 points

78% significantly better heavy workload score

914 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.28 points

133% significantly higher Blender score

18.53 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3137 points

138% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1317 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1144 points

141% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

474 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3282 points

227% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1001 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1193 points

199% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

398 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

3 GHz

3.6 GHz

20% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

3.8 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

95 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

192 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

675th of 1,089

882nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

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 i5-7400 vs FX-4100 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-7400 performs better than the FX-4100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4100 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-7400 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-4100 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-4100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7400. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-4100 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-7400. The FX-4100 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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. For instance, the Core i5-7400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.