AMD FX-4100 vs Intel Core i5-3340M

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1255 points

1% slightly better overall score

1242 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2361 points

2524 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

952 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

914 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

914 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

877 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.53 points

0.72% slightly higher Blender score

18.39 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1317 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1118 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

474 points

554 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1001 points

1053 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

398 points

525 points

31% 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

33% slightly higher clock speed

2.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 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

882nd of 1,089

888th of 1,089

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 i5-3340M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3340M beats the FX-4100 in overall performance. Despite this, the FX-4100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-4100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3340M.

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.