AMD FX-4100 vs Intel Core i7-3520M

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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Intel Core i7-3520M

Price

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$ 390.00

$ 108.02

$ 281.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1255 points

1256 points

0.08% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2361 points

2477 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

952 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

934 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

914 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

895 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.53 points

19.75 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1317 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1134 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

1158 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

398 points

570 points

43% 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

2.9 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

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

882nd of 1,089

881st 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

FX-4100 vs Core i7-3520M comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3520M beats the FX-4100 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4100 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-4100 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3520M.

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.