AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Core i5-4570

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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 98.02
$ 82.01
$ 16.01 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points
1% slightly better overall score
2177 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points
4010 points
20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points
12% slightly better multitasking score
1662 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score
1595 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points
42.40 points
20% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points
2948 points
63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points
1033 points
119% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points
3094 points
79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points
1112 points
142% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
3% slightly higher clock speed
3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
16% slightly higher turbo speed
3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
84 W
13% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

681st of 1,089
687th 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

-
2013 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

-
No

FX-8300 vs Core i5-4570 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8300 is faster than the Core i5-4570. Despite this, the Core i5-4570 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 i5-4570.

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.

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