AMD FX-4100 vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

Compare AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core CPU vs AMD Athlon Mobile 2 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

4% slightly better overall score

1200 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2361 points

2572 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

952 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

864 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

914 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

831 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.53 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

15.05 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1001 points

1350 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

398 points

778 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

56% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

18% slightly higher turbo speed

3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

192 KiB

Identical

192 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

882nd of 1,089

902nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Athlon Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-4100 vs Athlon Silver 3050U comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-4100 beats the Athlon Silver 3050U in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon Silver 3050U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the FX-4100 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-4100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon Silver 3050U. In terms of cache, the FX-4100 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Athlon Silver 3050U. The FX-4100 also has significantly more L3 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.