AMD FX-4300 vs Intel Core i5-4200M

Compare AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-4200M

Price

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$ 49.00

$ 529.00 significantly less expensive

$ 578.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1352 points

20% slightly better overall score

1121 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2531 points

13% slightly better gaming score

2225 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1026 points

23% slightly better multitasking score

833 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points

23% slightly better heavy workload score

799 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.26 points

18.84 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1076 points

1625 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

434 points

849 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1111 points

1716 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

876 points

93% significantly 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

52% significantly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

29% slightly higher turbo speed

3.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

37 W

156% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

855th of 1,089

918th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 November

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

FX-4300 vs Core i5-4200M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-4300 beats the Core i5-4200M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4200M in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-4300 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4200M. The Core i5-4200M 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.