AMD FX-4300 vs Intel Pentium G3250

AMD FX-4300
AMD Socket AM3+DESKTOP
3800 MHz / Cores: 4 / Oct 2012
AMD FX-4300
Intel Pentium G3250
Intel Socket 1150DESKTOP
3200 MHz / Cores: 2 / Jul 2014
Intel Pentium G3250

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD FX-4300
    100%
  • Intel Pentium G3250
    110%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD FX-4300
    100%
  • Intel Pentium G3250
    142%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD FX-4300
    127%
  • Intel Pentium G3250
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD FX-4300

Much higher multi threaded performance (around 27% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.

Reasons to consider Intel Pentium G3250

Much higher single threaded performance (around 42% higher), makes a noticeable performance difference in gaming and the majority of applications.
41 watts lower power draw.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Has an integrated GPU, which allows to run the system without a dedicated graphics card, unlike the AMD FX-4300.

No winner

Gaming

No clear winner declared


AMD FX-4300

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD FX-4300

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

AMD FX-4300Intel Pentium G3250
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
SSE4a
AMD64
AMD-V
AES
AVX
CLMUL
CVT16
EVP
FMA4
XOP
Turbo Core
HT3.1
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
FMA3

Architecture

AMD FX-4300Intel Pentium G3250
ArchitectureAMD PiledrivervsIntel_Haswell
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR3vsDDR3
CodenameVisheravsHaswell
Release DateOct 2012vsJul 2014

Cores

AMD FX-4300Intel Pentium G3250
Cores4vs2
Threads4vs2
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsIntel HD (Haswell)

Cache

AMD FX-4300Intel Pentium G3250
L1 Cache192 KBvs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache4096 KBvs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache8192 KB (shared)vs3072 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD FX-4300Intel Pentium G3250
SocketAMD Socket AM3+vsIntel Socket 1150
Max Case Tempunknownvs72°C
PackageuPGAvsFC-LGA12C
Die Size315mm²vs177mm²
Process32 nmvs22 nm

Performance

AMD FX-4300Intel Pentium G3250
Cpu Frequency3800 MHzvs3200 MHz
Turbo Clock4000 MHzvsnone
Base Clock200 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltage1.425 Vvsunknown
TDP95 Wvs54 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD FX-4300
    2440 points
  • Intel Pentium G3250
    3584 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD FX-4300
    7603 points
  • Intel Pentium G3250
    7168 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD FX-4300 (simulated)
    90.91
  • Intel Pentium G3250 (simulated)
    129.78

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD FX-4300 (simulated)
    302.15
  • Intel Pentium G3250 (simulated)
    236.57

points - higher is better