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6 Cores, 12 Threads @4.7GHz, Zen4.
Release date: Q3 2022.

4 Cores, 4 Threads @3.8GHz, Piledriver.
Release date: Q4 2012.

Real World Speed
Performance profile from 61,947 user samples
6,493 User Benchmarks
Great bench: 120% Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 5.15 GHz (avg)
Poor bench: 100% Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 5.1 GHz (avg)
Poor: 100% Great: 120%
SPEED RANK: 54th / 1468
Gaming
Gaming 110%
UFO
Desktop
Desktop 113%
UFO
Workstation
Workstation 105%
UFO
55,454 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 60% Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 3.85 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 36% Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 2.1 GHz (avg)
Poor: 36% Great: 60%
SPEED RANK: 770th / 1468
Gaming
Gaming 52%
Yacht
Desktop
Desktop 57%
Gunboat
Workstation
Workstation 36%
Jet ski
Effective Speed
Effective CPU Speed
110 % Hugely faster effective speed.
+112%
51.6 %
Memory
Avg. Memory Latency
82.4 Pts Slightly lower memory latency.
+7%
77.2 Pts
1-Core
Avg. Single Core Speed
203 Pts Hugely faster single-core speed.
+255%
57.2 Pts
2-Core
Avg. Dual Core Speed
393 Pts Hugely faster dual-core speed.
+285%
102 Pts
4-Core
Avg. Quad Core Speed
735 Pts Hugely faster quad-core speed.
+380%
153 Pts
8-Core
Avg. Octa Core Speed
1,147 Pts Hugely faster octa-core speed.
+612%
161 Pts
Memory
OC Memory Latency
93.1 Pts +4% 89.1 Pts
1-Core
OC Single Core Speed
213 Pts Hugely faster OC single-core speed.
+206%
69.5 Pts
2-Core
OC Dual Core Speed
421 Pts Hugely faster OC dual-core speed.
+231%
127 Pts
4-Core
OC Quad Core Speed
817 Pts Hugely faster OC quad-core speed.
+308%
200 Pts
8-Core
OC Octa Core Speed
1,249 Pts Hugely faster OC octa-core speed.
+524%
200 Pts
Market Share
Based on 69,048,283 CPUs tested
Market Share
Market Share (trailing 30 days)
0.38 % Insanely higher market share.
+3,700%
0.01 %
Value
Value For Money
121 % Much better value.
+62%
74.5 %
User Rating
UBM User Rating
82 % Much more popular.
+52%
54 %
Price
Price (score)
$194 $73 Much cheaper.
+62%
Age
Newest
25 Months Hugely more recent.
+83%
145 Months
TDP
Thermal Design Power (TDP)
105 Watts 95 Watts Slightly more energy efficient.
+10%
Cores
CPU Processing Cores
6 cores Much higher core count.
+50%
4 cores
Threads
CPU Processing Threads
12 threads Hugely higher thread count.
+200%
4 threads
Lithography
Manufacturing process
5 nm Hugely newer manufacturing.
+84%
32 nm
Base Clock
Base Clock Speed
4.7 GHz Faster base frequency.
+24%
3.8 GHz
Turbo Clock
Turbo Clock Speed
5.3 GHz Much faster turbo frequency.
+33%
4 GHz
64-Core
OC Multi Core Speed
1,502 Pts Hugely faster OC 64-core speed.
+651%
200 Pts
64-Core
Avg. Multi Core Speed
1,426 Pts Hugely faster 64-core speed.
+780%
162 Pts
Series
CPU Architecture
Zen4 Piledriver
Socket
Motherboard Socket
AM5 AM3+
Graphics
Integrated Graphics
RDNA2 None

Within minutes of the first, pre-release, 7000 series userbenchmark results, AMD’s marketers broadcast a 20% win over the 12900K via thousands of anonymous twitter, reddit, forum and youtube accounts. Buying new AMD products is like buying used cars: it takes time, experience and a taste for sales hype. It’s difficult for consumers to make rational choices while AMD completely dominates “sponsored news” and social media channels. Ten years ago, when AMD was the underdog, this type of marketing was understandable. Today, with a capitalization of $150 Billion USD, it’s disrespectful to AMD's own users. Even with Intel's marketing department asleep at the wheel, Ryzen will quickly end up in the same state as Radeon. Following a series of overhyped releases, consumers have little interest in the Radeon brand. The combined market share for all of AMD’s (discrete) Radeon RX 5000 and 6000 GPUs (Steam stats) is just 2%. Although the new 7000 series Zen4 CPUs are actually around 15% faster than their predecessors, they have hefty cooling requirements (TDP +60% vs 5000 series), 30 second BIOS post times, expensive DDR5 RAM requirements and only work with expensive motherboards. Despite the 7000 series struggling to match Intel’s outgoing 12th gen, AMD market it as a “future proof” platform! They want users to pay a premium for last gen performance in exchange for the shallow promise of upgrades in the future. Over the next few days, Intel’s 13th gen (Raptor Lake) will launch. Shoppers will do well to wait until then. Despite AMD’s Neanderthal marketing techniques, it’s hard not to admire their technical progress. AMD-Raptor4 and Intel-Zen13 would be better fitting product names. [Sep '22 CPUPro]

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The AMD FX-4300 is a budget quad-core processor which unlike its predecessor, the Bulldozer FX-4100, is based on the Piledriver micro-architecture which was released in Q4 of 2012. Its base clock speed of 3.8 GHz boosts to 4.0 GHz in turbo mode and with appropriate cooling can be overclocked to speeds of over 4.5 GHz. Even though these numbers are impressive, the real world effective speed is only 66. This is ok for general computing and even gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. The user experience will, however, be noticeably snappier with a CPU that has better single-core performance. Whilst the FX-4300 is cheap, it’s not so differently priced from the hexa core FX-6300 which offers significantly improved multi-core performance. [Nov '14 CPUPro]

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