AMD FX-4300 vs Intel Core i7-3520M

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

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Intel Core i7-3520M

Price

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$ 49.00

$ 59.02 significantly less expensive

$ 108.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1352 points

7% slightly better overall score

1256 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2531 points

2% slightly better gaming score

2477 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1026 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

934 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

895 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.26 points

19.75 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1076 points

1134 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

434 points

554 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1111 points

1158 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

570 points

25% slightly 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

31% slightly higher clock speed

2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

35 W

171% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

855th of 1,089

881st 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

FX-4300 vs Core i7-3520M benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-4300 performs better than the Core i7-3520M. Despite this, the Core i7-3520M 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 slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3520M. The Core i7-3520M 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.