AMD FX-4100 vs AMD A12-9720P

Compare AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 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

1255 points

1% slightly better overall score

1234 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2361 points

2365 points

0.17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

952 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

930 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

914 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

891 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.53 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

15.71 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1317 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1084 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

474 points

485 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1001 points

1190 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

398 points

529 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

906th of 1,118

914th of 1,118

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-4100 vs A12-9720P specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-4100 performs better than the A12-9720P. Despite this, the A12-9720P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the A12-9720P has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the FX-4100 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. The A12-9720P outputs less heat than FX-4100 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the FX-4100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.