AMD FX-4300 vs Intel Core i7-950

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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 49.00
$ 31.00
$ 18.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1352 points
1990 points
47% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2531 points
3211 points
26% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1026 points
1624 points
58% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points
1559 points
58% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.26 points
30.71 points
77% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1076 points
1595 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

434 points
460 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1111 points
1494 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points
457 points
0.88% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
24% slightly higher clock speed
3.06 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed
3.33 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
721st of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2009 May

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

-
No

FX-4300 vs Core i7-950 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-950 beats the FX-4300 in overall performance. 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 i7-950 has significantly more cores than the FX-4300. Indeed, the Core i7-950 has 4 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 i7-950. A FX-4300 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-950 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the FX-4300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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