AMD FX-4100 vs AMD A8-5600K

Compare AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core CPU vs AMD 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD A8-5600K

Price

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$ 390.00

$ 69.01

$ 320.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1255 points

38% slightly better overall score

908 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2361 points

24% slightly better gaming score

1895 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

952 points

43% significantly better multitasking score

662 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

914 points

43% significantly better heavy workload score

637 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.53 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

18.11 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1317 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1047 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

474 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

439 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1001 points

1036 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

398 points

425 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

5% slightly lower TDP

100 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

906th of 1,118

1,005th 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 A8-5600K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-4100 is faster than the A8-5600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5600K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. A FX-4100 CPU outputs less heat than a A8-5600K CPU because of its slightly 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.