AMD FX-4300 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

Compare AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core CPU vs AMD 6 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
$ 210.99 significantly less expensive
$ 259.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1352 points
2277 points
68% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2531 points
3688 points
45% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1026 points
1839 points
79% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points
1764 points
78% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.26 points
32.04 points
85% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
6
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
16% slightly higher clock speed
3.26 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache
3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
6 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

855th of 1,089
668th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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FX-4300 vs Phenom II X6 1100T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X6 1100T is faster than the FX-4300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4300 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the FX-4300 has 2 cores. 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 Phenom II X6 1100T. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-4300 has slightly more L2 cache than the Phenom II X6 1100T. Despite this, the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-4300.

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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