AMD FX-4100 vs Intel Core i5-3550S

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

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 390.00
$ 149.95
$ 240.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1255 points
1279 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2361 points
0.34% slightly better gaming score
2353 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

952 points
976 points
2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

914 points
937 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1317 points
2383 points
80% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

474 points
708 points
49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1001 points
1747 points
74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

398 points
619 points
55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
20% slightly higher clock speed
3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed
3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
65 W
46% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

882nd of 1,089
876th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2012 May

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

-
No

FX-4100 vs Core i5-3550S benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3550S is faster than the FX-4100. Despite this, the FX-4100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-3550S has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the FX-4100 that has 2 cores. But they both have 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 i5-3550S. Also, the FX-4100 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-3550S 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 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.

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