AMD Athlon X4 950 vs Intel Core i5-4570

AMD Athlon X4 950
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3500 MHz / Cores: 4 / Sep 2016
AMD Athlon X4 950
Intel Core i5-4570
Intel Socket 1150DESKTOP
3200 MHz / Cores: 4 / Jun 2013
Intel Core i5-4570

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Athlon X4 950
    100%
  • Intel Core i5-4570
    179%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon X4 950
    100%
  • Intel Core i5-4570
    181%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon X4 950
    100%
  • Intel Core i5-4570
    176%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Athlon X4 950

This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).

Reasons to consider Intel Core i5-4570

Much higher single threaded performance (around 81% higher), makes a noticeable performance difference in gaming and the majority of applications.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 76% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
Has an integrated GPU, which allows to run the system without a dedicated graphics card, unlike the AMD Athlon X4 950.
Around 79% higher average synthetic performance.

Intel Core i5-4570

Gaming

HWBench recommends Intel Core i5-4570

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

Intel Core i5-4570

Productivity

HWBench recommends Intel Core i5-4570

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


Specifications

Features

AMD Athlon X4 950Intel Core i5-4570
MMX
3DNow!
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSE4A
AMD64
CnQ
NX bit
AMD-V
SSSE3
SSE4.2
AVX
AVX2
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
VT-d
AES-NI
TSX
TXT
CLMUL
FMA3

Architecture

AMD Athlon X4 950Intel Core i5-4570
ArchitectureAMD ExcavatorvsIntel_Haswell
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR3
CodenameBristol RidgevsHaswell
Release DateSep 2016vsJun 2013

Cores

AMD Athlon X4 950Intel Core i5-4570
Cores4vs4
Threads4vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsIntel HD 4600

Cache

AMD Athlon X4 950Intel Core i5-4570
L1 Cache128 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache0 KBvs6144 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Athlon X4 950Intel Core i5-4570
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel Socket 1150
Max Case Tempunknownvs72°C
PackageuPGAvsFC-LGA12C
Die Sizeunknownvs177mm²
Process14 nmvs22 nm

Performance

AMD Athlon X4 950Intel Core i5-4570
Cpu Frequency3500 MHzvs3200 MHz
Turbo Clock3800 MHzvs3600 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltageunknownvsunknown
TDP65 Wvs84 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon X4 950
    2622 points
  • Intel Core i5-4570
    4032 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon X4 950
    8404 points
  • Intel Core i5-4570
    14336 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Athlon X4 950 (simulated)
    80.52
  • Intel Core i5-4570 (simulated)
    146

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Athlon X4 950 (simulated)
    293.82
  • Intel Core i5-4570 (simulated)
    519.31

points - higher is better