AMD FX-4100 vs Intel Core i7-860

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

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Intel Core i7-860

Price

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$ 390.00

$ 54.25

$ 335.75 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1255 points

1632 points

30% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2361 points

2607 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

952 points

1342 points

40% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

914 points

1289 points

41% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.53 points

30.74 points

65% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1317 points

1475 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

474 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

441 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1001 points

1475 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

398 points

451 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

28% slightly higher clock speed

2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

9% slightly higher turbo speed

3.46 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

882nd of 1,089

783rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-4100 vs Core i7-860 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-860 beats the FX-4100 in overall performance. Despite this, the FX-4100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-860 has significantly more cores than the FX-4100. Indeed, the Core i7-860 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the FX-4100. It also has more threads than the FX-4100. Our comparison shows that the FX-4100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-860.

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.