AMD FX-4300 vs Intel Core i3-2100

FX-4300 vs Core i3-2100 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-4300 beats the Core i3-2100 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-2100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-4300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-2100. The Core i3-2100 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 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-4300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.