AMD FX-4300 vs Intel Core i7-4810MQ

Compare AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 3 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
1976 points
46% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2531 points
3270 points
29% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1026 points
1601 points
56% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points
1538 points
55% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.26 points
48.85 points
183% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1076 points
3141 points
191% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

434 points
1012 points
133% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1111 points
3224 points
190% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points
1110 points
145% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
3
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
5
25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
36% slightly higher clock speed
2.79 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed
3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
47 W
102% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
6 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

855th of 1,089
724th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition
4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2014 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

-
No

FX-4300 vs Core i7-4810MQ specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4810MQ is faster than the FX-4300. Despite this, the FX-4300 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-4810MQ has significantly more cores than the FX-4300. Indeed, the Core i7-4810MQ has 3 cores compared to 2 cores found in the FX-4300. It also has more threads than the FX-4300. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-4300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4810MQ. Also, the FX-4300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4810MQ 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 i7-4810MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4810MQ has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-4300.

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.

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