AMD FX-4100 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Compare AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 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
3062 points
143% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2361 points
4858 points
105% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

952 points
2525 points
165% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

914 points
2426 points
165% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.53 points
64.47 points
247% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1001 points
3685 points
268% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

398 points
1171 points
194% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
28% slightly higher clock speed
2.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
4.3 GHz
13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
15 W
533% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

192 KiB
256 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
Identical
2 MiB

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

893rd of 1,102
540th of 1,102

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition
Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

FX-4100 vs Ryzen 5 7520U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7520U beats the FX-4100 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4100 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 7520U has significantly more cores than the FX-4100. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7520U has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the FX-4100. It also has more threads than the FX-4100. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-4100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7520U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7520U outputs less heat than FX-4100 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The FX-4100 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the FX-4100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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