FX-4300: specs and benchmarks

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FX-4300
2012
4 cores / 4 threads, 95 Watt
1.88

FX-4300 provides poor benchmark performance at 1.88% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

AMD started FX-4300 sales 23 October 2012 at a recommended price of $122. This is a Vishera architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 4 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 32nm manufacturing technology, with a max turbo frequency of 4000 MHz and an unlocked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AM3+ processor with a TDP of 95 Watt. It supports DDR3 memory.

Primary details

FX-4300 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking1974
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.35
Market segmentDesktop processor
Power efficiency1.87of 100.00 (Core Ultra 7 164U)
Architecture codenameVishera (2012−2015)
Release date23 October 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$122of 17,906 (Xeon Platinum 8280L)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

Detailed specifications

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores4 (Quad-Core)
Threads4
Base clock speed3.8 GHzof 4.7 GHz (Ryzen 9 7900X)
Boost clock speed4 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
L2 cache4096 KBof 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
Chip lithography32 nmof 3 nm (Core Ultra 9 285K)
Die size315 mm2
Maximum core temperature71 °Cof 110 °C (Core Ultra 9 185H)
Number of transistors1,200 millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-
Unlocked multiplier+
P0 Vcore voltageMin: 1.225 V - Max: 1.3875 V

Compatibility

Information on FX-4300 compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8454H)
SocketAM3+
Power consumption (TDP)95 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by FX-4300. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

AES-NI+
FMA+
AVX+

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

AMD-V+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by FX-4300's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into FX-4300.

Integrated graphics cardOn certain motherboards (Chipset feature)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe versionn/aof 5.0 (EPYC 9655P)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of FX-4300. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

FX-4300 1.88

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

FX-4300 2982

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

FX-4300 454

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

FX-4300 1104

3DMark Fire Strike Physics

FX-4300 7010

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

FX-4300's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop CPUs.


A8-6600K 100.53
FX-4300 100
Core i7-930 99.47
A10-5800K 98.94

Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to FX-4300 is Pentium G4560T, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 2 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest Intel rivals to FX-4300:

Core i7-860 100.53
Core i5-3470T 100.53
FX-4300 100
Core i7-930 99.47
Core i7-940 98.94

Similar processors

Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for FX-4300, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for FX-4300 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 19873 configurations using FX-4300 in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.6% (115/19873)
RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 4080
0.005% (1/19873)
RTX 4070 Ti GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
0.005% (1/19873)
RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 7900 XTX
0.005% (1/19873)
RTX 4070 SUPER GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
0.02% (3/19873)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.07% (13/19873)
PRO W7800 Radeon PRO W7800
0.01% (2/19873)
RX 6950 XT Radeon RX 6950 XT
0.005% (1/19873)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.1% (23/19873)
RTX 4070 GeForce RTX 4070
0.005% (1/19873)

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