AMD FX-4300 vs AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme

Compare AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen Z1 8 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
6328 points
368% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2531 points
7752 points
206% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1026 points
5895 points
474% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points
5789 points
487% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.26 points
169.56 points
882% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1111 points
9595 points
763% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points
2167 points
378% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
8
300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
16
300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed
3.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
5.1 GHz
27% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
28 W
239% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
8 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
16 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

855th of 1,089
234th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition
Ryzen Z1

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
-

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

FX-4300 vs Ryzen Z1 Extreme benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme is faster than the FX-4300. 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 Ryzen Z1 Extreme has significantly more cores than the FX-4300. Indeed, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has 8 cores compared to 2 cores found in the FX-4300. It also has more threads than the FX-4300. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-4300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has significantly more L2 cache than the FX-4300. The Ryzen Z1 Extreme also has significantly more L3 cache.

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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