AMD FX-4300 vs Intel Pentium Silver N5030

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
22% slightly better overall score
1107 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2531 points
17% slightly better gaming score
2151 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1026 points
24% slightly better multitasking score
823 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points
25% slightly better heavy workload score
784 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.26 points
51% significantly higher Blender score
11.38 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1111 points
42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
778 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
352 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
245% significantly higher clock speed
1.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
6 W
1483% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

855th of 1,089
922nd 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

-
No

FX-4300 vs Pentium Silver N5030 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-4300 is faster than the Pentium Silver N5030. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver N5030 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Pentium Silver N5030 has significantly more cores than the FX-4300. Indeed, the Pentium Silver N5030 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the FX-4300. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-4300 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Pentium Silver N5030. The Pentium Silver N5030 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.

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