AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Core i5-4460S

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 i5-4460S

Price

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$ 98.02

$ 61.93 significantly less expensive

$ 159.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

15% slightly better overall score

1911 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

3523 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

27% slightly better multitasking score

1459 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

27% slightly better heavy workload score

1403 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

33.53 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points

2689 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

971 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

2749 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

1026 points

123% 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

13% slightly higher clock speed

2.9 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

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

681st of 1,089

736th 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 i5-4460S specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-8300 beats the Core i5-4460S in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-4460S has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number 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 i5-4460S.

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.