AMD FX-4300 vs AMD Athlon Silver 7120U

Compare AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core CPU vs AMD Athlon 7000 Series 2 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

1352 points

4% slightly better overall score

1294 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2531 points

2824 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1026 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

923 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

886 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.26 points

81% significantly higher Blender score

9.49 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1111 points

1563 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

942 points

107% 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

3.8 GHz

58% significantly higher clock speed

2.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

14% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

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

4 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

2 MiB

Other details

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Ranking in the hardwareDB database

871st of 1,111

888th of 1,111

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Athlon 7000 Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-4300 vs Athlon Silver 7120U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-4300 performs better than the Athlon Silver 7120U. Despite this, the Athlon Silver 7120U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the FX-4300 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-4300 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Athlon Silver 7120U. Also, the FX-4300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Athlon Silver 7120U outputs less heat than FX-4300 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-4300 has significantly more L2 cache than the Athlon Silver 7120U. The FX-4300 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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-4300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.