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AMDFD4300WMHKBOX
▲ 571,327 ▼

8 Cores, 16 Threads.
Release date ≈ Q4 2024.

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▲ 543,584 ▼

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

Effective Speed 
+137%
Real World Speed
Performance profile from 55,565 user samples
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111 User Benchmarks
Great bench: 135% Base clock 4.9 GHz, turbo 5.55 GHz (avg)
Poor bench: 113% Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 5.15 GHz (avg)
Poor: 113% Great: 135%
SPEED RANK: 17th / 1468
Gaming
Gaming 122%
UFO
Desktop
Desktop 125%
UFO
Workstation
Workstation 132%
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 		122 % Hugely faster effective speed.
+137% 		51.6 %
Average Score 
+380%
Memory
Avg. Memory Latency 		91.6 Pts Lower memory latency.
+19% 		77.2 Pts
1-Core
Avg. Single Core Speed 		221 Pts Hugely faster single-core speed.
+286% 		57.2 Pts
2-Core
Avg. Dual Core Speed 		431 Pts Hugely faster dual-core speed.
+323% 		102 Pts
4-Core
Avg. Quad Core Speed 		818 Pts Hugely faster quad-core speed.
+435% 		153 Pts
8-Core
Avg. Octa Core Speed 		1,506 Pts Hugely faster octa-core speed.
+835% 		161 Pts
Overclocked Score 
+335%
Memory
OC Memory Latency 		98.7 Pts Lower OC memory latency.
+11% 		89.1 Pts
1-Core
OC Single Core Speed 		232 Pts Hugely faster OC single-core speed.
+234% 		69.5 Pts
2-Core
OC Dual Core Speed 		460 Pts Hugely faster OC dual-core speed.
+262% 		127 Pts
4-Core
OC Quad Core Speed 		919 Pts Hugely faster OC quad-core speed.
+360% 		200 Pts
8-Core
OC Octa Core Speed 		1,816 Pts Hugely faster OC octa-core speed.
+808% 		200 Pts
Value & Sentiment 
+193%
Market Share
Based on 69,052,293 CPUs tested
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Market Share
Market Share (trailing 30 days) 		0.09 % Hugely higher market share.
+800% 		0.01 %
Value
Value For Money 		111 % Much better value.
+49% 		74.5 %
User Rating
UBM User Rating 		57 % Slightly more popular.
+6% 		54 %
Price
Price (score) 		$399 $73 Hugely cheaper.
+82%
Nice To Haves 
+831%
Age
Newest 		0+ Months Hugely more recent.
+100% 		145 Months
64-Core
OC Multi Core Speed 		2,418 Pts Insanely faster OC 64-core speed.
+1,109% 		200 Pts
64-Core
Avg. Multi Core Speed 		2,242 Pts Insanely faster 64-core speed.
+1,284% 		162 Pts
Conclusion 
Average Bench 122%
Average Bench 51.6%

AMD’s 7800X3D and 9800X3D CPUs, priced over $400 USD, are widely marketed as “the best gaming CPUs in the world”. This is demonstrated at low resolutions with a 4090-class GPU, whilst conveniently ignoring 0.1% lows (frame drops). Under cherry-picked cache-bound conditions the X3D chips do excel, but there’s a trade-off: the additional cache results in 6% lower boost clocks and 50% to 80% higher prices than their regular counterparts (9700X and 7700X). As with their Radeon GPUs, AMD is looking to drive demand through advanced marketing rather than delivering real-world performance. While Nvidia has effectively countered AMD’s marketing in the GPU space, Intel's marketers remain asleep (terminally?) at the wheel. Nevertheless, the 13600K and 14600K still deliver almost unparalleled real-world gaming performance for around $200 USD. Spending more on a gaming CPU is often pointless, as games are normally limited by the GPU. Without significant improvements in social media marketing: forums, reddit, youtube etc., Intel now face the very real risk of bankruptcy (third worst-performing S&P500 stock from Jan to Aug 2024). Since this summary was published just two days ago, hundreds of twitter threads, thousands of “pcmasterrace” reddit posts, multiple magazine articles, and several youtube videos have emerged in unanimous support for the $480 USD 9800X3D. All of these supposedly disinterested actors are working the weekend to convince you to pay their favourite billion-dollar brand an extra $280 USD this holiday season. [Nov '24 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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