AMD FX-4300 vs Intel Core i7-930

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

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Intel Core i7-930

Price

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$ 49.00

$ 258.29 significantly less expensive

$ 307.29

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1352 points

1941 points

43% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2531 points

3145 points

24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1026 points

1583 points

54% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points

1519 points

54% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.26 points

28.18 points

63% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1076 points

1490 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

434 points

0.46% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

432 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1111 points

1449 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

425 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

35% slightly higher clock speed

2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

30% slightly higher turbo speed

3.06 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

36% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

855th of 1,089

729th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-4300 vs Core i7-930 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-930 performs better than the FX-4300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4300 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-930 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the FX-4300 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-4300. Our comparison shows that the FX-4300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-930. A FX-4300 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-930 CPU because of its slightly 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.