AMD FX-4100 vs Intel Core i3-3240

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

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Intel Core i3-3240

Price

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$ 390.00

$ 41.00

$ 349.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1255 points

1315 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2361 points

2538 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

952 points

986 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

914 points

946 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.53 points

19.18 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1317 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1122 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

474 points

547 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1001 points

1110 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

398 points

544 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

55 W

72% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

882nd of 1,089

866th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-4100 vs Core i3-3240 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-3240 beats the FX-4100 in overall performance. 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 and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-4100 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-3240.

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.