AMD FX-4100 vs Intel Core i5-5300U

Compare AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core CPU vs Intel 5th Generation Core i5 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-5300U

Price

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$ 390.00

$ 1486.00 significantly less expensive

$ 1876.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1255 points

8% slightly better overall score

1153 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2361 points

3% slightly better gaming score

2272 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

952 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

860 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

914 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

826 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.53 points

24.25 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1317 points

1558 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

474 points

813 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1001 points

1572 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

398 points

825 points

107% 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

56% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

31% slightly higher turbo speed

2.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

192 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

128 KiB

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

166% significantly more L3 cache

3 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

882nd of 1,089

909th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

5th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-4100 vs Core i5-5300U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-4100 is faster than the Core i5-5300U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-5300U 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 significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-5300U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-4100 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-5300U. The FX-4100 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.