AMD FX-4100 vs AMD FX-4130

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

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 390.00
$ 52.02
$ 337.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1255 points
1311 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2361 points
2474 points
4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

952 points
993 points
4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

914 points
953 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.53 points
20% slightly higher Blender score
15.35 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1317 points
1340 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

474 points
0.21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
473 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1001 points
1060 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

398 points
415 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
3.8 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
3.9 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
31% slightly lower TDP
125 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

192 KiB
Identical
192 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
4 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

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
868th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition
FX 4-Core Black Edition

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

FX-4100 vs FX-4130 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-4130 beats the FX-4100 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4100 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-4130 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-4100. The info from our database shows that the FX-4130 has more L2 cache than the FX-4100. Despite this, the FX-4100 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-4130.

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.

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