AMD FX-4100 vs Intel Core i3-4160

Compare AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i3 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i3-4160

Price

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$ 390.00

$ 98.00

$ 292.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1255 points

1444 points

15% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2361 points

2813 points

19% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

952 points

1081 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

914 points

1038 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.53 points

23.82 points

28% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1317 points

1850 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

474 points

962 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1001 points

2084 points

108% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

398 points

1076 points

170% significantly 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

Identical

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

54 W

75% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

890th of 1,099

830th of 1,099

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

4th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 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

Yes

FX-4100 vs Core i3-4160 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-4160 is faster than the FX-4100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4100 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the FX-4100 and Core i3-4160 are identical in this regard.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the FX-4100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.