AMD FX-4100 vs AMD Ryzen 5 4500

Compare AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 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
$ 68.37
$ 321.63 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1255 points
5312 points
323% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2361 points
7287 points
208% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

952 points
4672 points
390% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

914 points
4523 points
394% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.53 points
124.29 points
570% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1001 points
6235 points
522% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

398 points
1560 points
291% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
6
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
Identical
3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
4.1 GHz
7% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
65 W
46% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

192 KiB
384 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
3 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
Identical
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

882nd of 1,089
309th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

FX-4100 vs Ryzen 5 4500 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 4500 beats the FX-4100 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4100 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 4500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the FX-4100 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-4100. Both the FX-4100 and Ryzen 5 4500 have the same clock speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4500 has significantly more L2 cache than the FX-4100. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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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