AMD FX-4300 vs Intel Core i5-5257U

Compare AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core CPU vs Intel 5th Generation Core i5 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

0.15% slightly better overall score

1350 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2531 points

2561 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1026 points

0.39% slightly better multitasking score

1022 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points

0.51% slightly better heavy workload score

981 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.26 points

24.92 points

44% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1076 points

1676 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

434 points

900 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1111 points

1788 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

925 points

104% 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

40% slightly higher clock speed

2.7 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

23 W

313% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

192 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

128 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

0.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

3 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

855th of 1,089

856th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

5th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-4300 vs Core i5-5257U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-5257U performs better than the FX-4300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4300 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and 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 i5-5257U. The Core i5-5257U 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. In terms of cache, the FX-4300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-5257U. The FX-4300 also has slightly more L3 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.