AMD FX-4100 vs Intel Pentium Silver N5030

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1255 points

13% slightly better overall score

1107 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2361 points

9% slightly better gaming score

2151 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

952 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

823 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

914 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

784 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.53 points

62% significantly higher Blender score

11.38 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1001 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

778 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

398 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

352 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

227% significantly higher clock speed

1.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

6 W

1483% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

882nd of 1,089

922nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-4100 vs Pentium Silver N5030 comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-4100 beats the Pentium Silver N5030 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver N5030 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Pentium Silver N5030 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the FX-4100 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-4100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N5030.

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.