AMD FX-4100 vs AMD FX-4300

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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AMD FX-4300

Price

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$ 390.00

$ 49.00

$ 341.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1255 points

1352 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2361 points

2531 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

952 points

1026 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

914 points

986 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.53 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

17.26 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1317 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1076 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

474 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

434 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1001 points

1111 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

398 points

453 points

13% slightly 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

3.8 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

4 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 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

855th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-4100 vs FX-4300 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-4300 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. Our comparison shows that the FX-4300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-4100. The info from our database shows that the FX-4300 has more L2 cache than the FX-4100. Despite this, the FX-4100 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-4300.

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.