Comparison of AMD FX-4300 and AMD Phenom II X4 975

Attribute	AMD Phenom II X4 975 ×	AMD FX-4300 ×
General Information
Brand	AMD	AMD
Series	AMD Phenom II	AMD FX
Model	AMD Phenom II X4 975	AMD FX-4300
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	4	4
Frequency (GHz)	3.6	3.8
CPU Threads	4	4
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	+	+
Encryption
AES-NI	-	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	No	No
h264	No	No
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	No
VP8	No	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	No	No
VP9	No	No
AVC	No	No
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	DDR2-1066	DDR3-1866
ECC	-	+
Memory channels	2	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2011	2012
Technology (Nm)	-	32
Socket	AM3	AM3+
Virtualization	amd-rvi amd-v	amd-v
L3-Cache (MB)	6	4
Architecture	Deneb	Vishera
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	125	95
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	4,631	4,713
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	478	511
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	1,587	1,394
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	94	-
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	362	-
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.09	1.06
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	4.23	3.47
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	1,876	2,186
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	6,704	6,346