AMD FX-4300 vs Intel Pentium Silver J5040

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1352 points

4% slightly better overall score

1289 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2531 points

3% slightly better gaming score

2434 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1026 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

978 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

939 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.26 points

20.05 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1111 points

1114 points

0.27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

417 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

89% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

10 W

850% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

855th of 1,089

872nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-4300 vs Pentium Silver J5040 comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-4300 beats the Pentium Silver J5040 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver J5040 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Pentium Silver J5040 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the FX-4300 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-4300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver J5040. The Pentium Silver J5040 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.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the FX-4300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.