AMD FX-4300 vs Intel Core i5-4210M

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 i5-4210M

Price

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$ 49.00

$ 39.04 significantly less expensive

$ 88.04

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1352 points

8% slightly better overall score

1250 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2531 points

0.16% slightly better gaming score

2527 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1026 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

920 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

882 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.26 points

21.96 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1076 points

1750 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

434 points

886 points

104% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1111 points

1765 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

907 points

100% 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

46% significantly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

25% slightly higher turbo speed

3.2 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

883rd 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

2014 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

FX-4300 vs Core i5-4210M comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-4300 beats the Core i5-4210M in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-4210M 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. Our comparison shows that the FX-4300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4210M. The Core i5-4210M 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the FX-4300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.