AMD FX-4300 vs Intel Core i7-3540M

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 i7-3540M

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

1405 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2531 points

2845 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1026 points

1034 points

0.78% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points

993 points

0.71% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.26 points

19.50 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1076 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

803 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

434 points

442 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1111 points

1163 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

569 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

26% slightly higher clock speed

3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 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

837th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 February

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 i7-3540M comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3540M beats the FX-4300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4300 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count 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 i7-3540M. The Core i7-3540M 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.

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.