AMD A8-6600K vs AMD FX-4300

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD FX-4300

Price

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$ 118.02

$ 49.00

$ 69.02 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1366 points

1% slightly better overall score

1352 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2599 points

2% slightly better gaming score

2531 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1031 points

0.49% slightly better multitasking score

1026 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

989 points

0.30% slightly better heavy workload score

986 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.74 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

17.26 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1128 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1076 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

468 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

434 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1081 points

1111 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

Identical

453 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

3.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

95 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

192 KiB

Identical

192 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

24.26 MiB

506% significantly more L2 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

848th of 1,089

855th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

A8-6600K vs FX-4300 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-6600K performs better than the FX-4300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4300 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-6600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-4300. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the A8-6600K has significantly more L2 cache than the FX-4300

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the A8-6600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.