AMD FX-4300 vs Intel Core i7-5600U

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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 49.00
$ 2384.00 significantly less expensive
$ 2433.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1352 points
28% slightly better overall score
1056 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2531 points
20% slightly better gaming score
2095 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1026 points
31% slightly better multitasking score
783 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points
31% slightly better heavy workload score
750 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.26 points
26.29 points
52% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1076 points
1705 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

434 points
875 points
101% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1111 points
1765 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points
926 points
104% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
46% significantly higher clock speed
2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
25% slightly higher turbo speed
3.2 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
933rd 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
No

FX-4300 vs Core i7-5600U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-5600U performs better than the FX-4300. 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 significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-5600U. The Core i7-5600U 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 i7-5600U. 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.

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