AMD FX-4300 vs AMD Phenom II X4 B50

FX-4300 vs Phenom II X4 B50 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X4 B50 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 Phenom II X4 B50 has significantly more cores than the FX-4300. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 B50 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the FX-4300. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-4300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X4 B50. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-4300 has significantly more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 B50. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 B50 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-4300.

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.