AMD FX-4300 vs Intel Core i7-5500U

Compare AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core CPU vs Intel 5th Generation Core i7 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-5500U

Price

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$ 49.00

$ 1979.00 significantly less expensive

$ 2028.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1352 points

17% slightly better overall score

1149 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2531 points

11% slightly better gaming score

2264 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1026 points

20% slightly better multitasking score

853 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

817 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.26 points

0.63% slightly higher Blender score

17.15 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1076 points

1720 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

434 points

872 points

100% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1111 points

1695 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

881 points

94% 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

58% significantly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

33% slightly higher turbo speed

3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

15 W

533% 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

Identical

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

855th of 1,089

912th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

5th Generation Core i7

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 i7-5500U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-4300 performs better than the Core i7-5500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5500U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-4300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-5500U. The Core i7-5500U 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. The info from our database shows that the FX-4300 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-5500U. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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.