AMD FX-4100 vs AMD FX-6300

AMD FX-4100
AMD Socket AM3+DESKTOP
3600 MHz / Cores: 4 / Oct 2011
AMD FX-4100
AMD FX-6300
AMD Socket AM3+DESKTOP
3500 MHz / Cores: 6 / Oct 2012
AMD FX-6300

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD FX-4100
    100%
  • AMD FX-6300
    130%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD FX-4100
    100%
  • AMD FX-6300
    113%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD FX-4100
    100%
  • AMD FX-6300
    147%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD FX-4100

None

Reasons to consider AMD FX-6300

13% higher single threaded performance.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 47% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
Around 30% higher average synthetic performance.

AMD FX-6300

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD FX-6300

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD FX-6300

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD FX-6300

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


Specifications

Features

AMD FX-4100AMD FX-6300
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
SSE4a
AMD64
AMD-V
AES
AVX
CLMUL
CVT16
EVP
FMA4
XOP
Turbo Core
HT3.1

Architecture

AMD FX-4100AMD FX-6300
ArchitectureAMD BulldozervsAMD Piledriver
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR3vsDDR3
CodenameZambezivsVishera
Release DateOct 2011vsOct 2012

Cores

AMD FX-4100AMD FX-6300
Cores4vs6
Threads4vs6
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsNo

Cache

AMD FX-4100AMD FX-6300
L1 Cache192 KBvs288 KB
L2 Cache4096 KBvs6144 KB
L3 Cache8192 KB (shared)vs8192 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD FX-4100AMD FX-6300
SocketAMD Socket AM3+vsAMD Socket AM3+
Max Case Tempunknownvsunknown
PackageuPGAvsuPGA
Die Size315mm²vs315mm²
Process32 nmvs32 nm

Performance

AMD FX-4100AMD FX-6300
Cpu Frequency3600 MHzvs3500 MHz
Turbo Clock3900 MHzvs4100 MHz
Base Clock200 MHzvs200 MHz
Voltage1.425 Vvs1.4 V
TDP95 Wvs95 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD FX-4100
    2301 points
  • AMD FX-6300
    2501 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD FX-4100
    6966 points
  • AMD FX-6300
    10504 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

GeekBench 3 (32-bit Multi Core)

  • AMD FX-4100
    4981
  • AMD FX-6300
    7392

points - higher is better

GeekBench 3 (64-bit Single Core)

  • AMD FX-4100
    1963
  • AMD FX-6300
    2269

points - higher is better

GeekBench 3 (64-bit Multi Core)

  • AMD FX-4100
    5597
  • AMD FX-6300
    8207

points - higher is better

GeekBench 3 (32-bit Single Core)

  • AMD FX-4100
    1784
  • AMD FX-6300
    1974

points - higher is better