AMD FX-4100 vs Intel Core i5-3230M

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 i5-3230M

Price

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$ 390.00

$ 99.99

$ 290.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1255 points

15% slightly better overall score

1083 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2361 points

12% slightly better gaming score

2105 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

952 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

813 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

914 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

780 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.53 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

17.73 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1317 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1041 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

474 points

523 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1001 points

1017 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

398 points

505 points

26% 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

38% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 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

35 W

171% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

906th of 1,118

951st of 1,118

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 February

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 i5-3230M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-4100 is faster than the Core i5-3230M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3230M in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-4100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3230M. Also, the FX-4100 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-3230M 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.

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.