AMD FX-6300 vs AMD Ryzen 3 4100

Compare AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 3 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 3 4100

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 9.40 slightly less expensive

$ 59.40

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

3892 points

116% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

6333 points

111% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

3162 points

119% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

3035 points

119% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

80.44 points

178% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

4865 points

241% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

1512 points

233% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

3.80 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

4 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

288 KiB

12% slightly more L1 cache

256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

200% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

757th of 1,089

443rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Ryzen 3 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-6300 vs Ryzen 3 4100 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 3 4100 performs better than the FX-6300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-6300 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 3 4100 has slightly more cores than the FX-6300. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 4100 has 4 cores compared to 3 cores found in the FX-6300. It also has more threads than the FX-6300. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 4100 has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-6300. Also, the Ryzen 3 4100 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 3 4100 outputs less heat than FX-6300 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the FX-6300 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 4100. The FX-6300 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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-6300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.