AMD FX-4100 vs Intel Core i5-4570T

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 i5-4570T

Price

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$ 390.00

$ 149.95

$ 240.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1255 points

1353 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2361 points

2692 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

952 points

1004 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

914 points

964 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.53 points

30.50 points

64% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1317 points

1888 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

474 points

984 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1001 points

2010 points

100% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

398 points

1040 points

161% 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

24% slightly higher clock speed

2.90 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

35 W

171% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

0.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

882nd of 1,089

854th 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 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

FX-4100 vs Core i5-4570T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-4570T beats the FX-4100 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4100 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount 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 i5-4570T. The info from our database shows that the FX-4100 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-4570T. The FX-4100 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.