Intel Core i7-920 vs AMD FX-4300

Compare Intel Core 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 99.95
$ 49.00
$ 50.95 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1474 points
9% slightly better overall score
1352 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2489 points
2531 points
1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1179 points
14% slightly better multitasking score
1026 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1132 points
14% slightly better heavy workload score
986 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

31.28 points
81% significantly higher Blender score
17.26 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1076 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

419 points
434 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1431 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1111 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

415 points
453 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.79 GHz
3.8 GHz
36% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.93 GHz
4 GHz
36% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W
95 W
36% slightly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

814th of 1,089
855th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
FX 4-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 November
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-920 vs FX-4300 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-920 performs better than the FX-4300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4300 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-920 has significantly more cores than the FX-4300. Indeed, the Core i7-920 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the FX-4300. It also has more threads than the FX-4300. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-4300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-920. The FX-4300 outputs less heat than Core i7-920 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-920 has more L2 cache than the FX-4300

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 i7-920 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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