AMD FX-4100 vs Intel Core i5-4200M

Compare AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-4200M

Price

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$ 390.00

$ 188.00 significantly less expensive

$ 578.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1255 points

11% slightly better overall score

1121 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2361 points

6% slightly better gaming score

2225 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

952 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

833 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

914 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

799 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.53 points

18.84 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1317 points

1625 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

474 points

849 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1001 points

1716 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

398 points

876 points

120% 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

44% significantly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

22% slightly higher turbo speed

3.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

37 W

156% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

882nd of 1,089

918th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 November

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 i5-4200M specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-4100 performs better than the Core i5-4200M. Despite this, the Core i5-4200M 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 significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4200M.

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.