AMD FX-4100 vs AMD A6-7310

Compare AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core CPU vs AMD A6-Series APU for Laptops 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
68% significantly better overall score
745 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2361 points
68% significantly better gaming score
1404 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

952 points
68% significantly better multitasking score
564 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

914 points
68% significantly better heavy workload score
541 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1317 points
110% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
627 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

474 points
105% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
231 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1001 points
67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
596 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

398 points
75% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
227 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
79% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
58% significantly higher turbo speed
2.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
25 W
280% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
Identical
2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

882nd of 1,089
1,019th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition
A6-Series APU for Laptops

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR3L

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

FX-4100 vs A6-7310 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-4100 is faster than the A6-7310. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A6-7310 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the A6-7310 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-4100 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-4100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the A6-7310. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache

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 FX-4100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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