AMD FX-4100 vs Intel Core i7-5500U

Compare AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core CPU vs Intel 5th Generation Core i7 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-5500U

Price

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$ 390.00

$ 1638.00 significantly less expensive

$ 2028.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1255 points

9% slightly better overall score

1149 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2361 points

4% slightly better gaming score

2264 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

952 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

853 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

914 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

817 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.53 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

17.15 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1317 points

1720 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

474 points

872 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1001 points

1695 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

398 points

881 points

121% 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

49% significantly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

26% slightly higher turbo speed

3 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

100% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

882nd of 1,089

912th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

5th Generation Core i7

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 i7-5500U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-4100 beats the Core i7-5500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5500U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-4100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-5500U. In terms of cache, the FX-4100 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-5500U. 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.