AMD FX-4100 vs AMD Athlon Silver 7120U

Compare AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core CPU vs AMD Athlon 7000 Series 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

1294 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2361 points

2824 points

19% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

952 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

923 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

914 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

886 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.53 points

95% significantly higher Blender score

9.49 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1001 points

1563 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

398 points

942 points

136% 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

49% significantly higher clock speed

2.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 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

256 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

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

300% significantly more L3 cache

2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

900th of 1,111

888th of 1,111

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Athlon 7000 Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-4100 vs Athlon Silver 7120U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon Silver 7120U performs better than the FX-4100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4100 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the FX-4100 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-4100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon Silver 7120U. Also, the FX-4100 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Athlon Silver 7120U 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. The info from our database shows that the FX-4100 has more L2 cache than the Athlon Silver 7120U. 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.