AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Core i5-4460

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-4460

Price

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$ 98.02

$ 64.04

$ 33.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

8% slightly better overall score

2038 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

3756 points

13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

19% slightly better multitasking score

1556 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

1494 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

41.05 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points

2935 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

1032 points

119% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

2954 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

1068 points

132% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

3.20 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

23% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

84 W

13% slightly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

681st of 1,089

709th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-8300 vs Core i5-4460 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8300 is faster than the Core i5-4460. Despite this, the Core i5-4460 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the FX-8300 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-8300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4460. The info from our database shows that the FX-8300 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-4460. The FX-8300 also has slightly 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-8300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.