AMD FX-4100 vs Intel Pentium G3260

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

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Intel Pentium G3260

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

4% slightly better overall score

1206 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2361 points

2612 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

952 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

863 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

914 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

828 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.53 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

15.34 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1317 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

919 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

474 points

563 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1001 points

0.60% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

995 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

398 points

583 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

53 W

79% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

882nd of 1,089

899th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Pentium G Series

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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

FX-4100 vs Pentium G3260 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-4100 performs better than the Pentium G3260. Despite this, the Pentium G3260 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the FX-4100 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-4100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium G3260.

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.