AMD FX-4100 vs Intel Core i7-950

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 i7-950

Price

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$ 390.00

$ 31.00

$ 359.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1255 points

1367 points

8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2361 points

10% slightly better gaming score

2145 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

952 points

1130 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

914 points

1084 points

18% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.53 points

30.71 points

65% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1317 points

1595 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

474 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

460 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1001 points

1494 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

398 points

457 points

14% 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

17% slightly higher clock speed

3.06 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

14% slightly higher turbo speed

3.33 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

36% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

912th of 1,127

874th of 1,127

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 May

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 i7-950 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-950 is faster than the FX-4100. Despite this, the FX-4100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-950 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-4100 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-4100. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-4100 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-950. Also, the FX-4100 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A FX-4100 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-950 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.