AMD FX-4300 vs AMD Athlon X4 870K

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

1400 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2531 points

2698 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1026 points

1049 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points

1006 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.26 points

18.63 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1111 points

1209 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

468 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

3.89 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.1 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

Identical

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

855th of 1,089

839th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-4300 vs Athlon X4 870K comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon X4 870K performs better than the FX-4300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4300 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon X4 870K has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-4300. Also, the Athlon X4 870K has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 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.