AMD FX-4300 vs Intel Core i5-3570K

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

$ 49.00
$ 90.00 significantly less expensive
$ 139.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1352 points
2217 points
63% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2531 points
4077 points
61% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1026 points
1694 points
65% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points
1627 points
65% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.26 points
35.69 points
106% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1076 points
2162 points
100% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

434 points
704 points
62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1111 points
2062 points
85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points
688 points
51% 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
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
11% slightly higher clock speed
3.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed
3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
77 W
23% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

855th of 1,089
679th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

FX-4300 vs Core i5-3570K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3570K beats the FX-4300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4300 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-3570K has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the FX-4300 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-4300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3570K. The Core i5-3570K outputs less heat than FX-4300 thanks to a slightly 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.

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