AMD FX-4300 vs Intel Core i7-960

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 i7-960

Price

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$ 49.00

$ 101.00 significantly less expensive

$ 150.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1352 points

1995 points

47% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2531 points

3216 points

27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1026 points

1629 points

58% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points

1563 points

58% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.26 points

32.27 points

87% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1076 points

1700 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

434 points

503 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1111 points

1672 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

492 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

18% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

3.46 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

719th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 November

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 i7-960 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-960 beats the FX-4300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4300 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-960 has significantly more cores than the FX-4300. Indeed, the Core i7-960 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the FX-4300. It also has more threads than the FX-4300. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-4300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-960. A FX-4300 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-960 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.