Intel Core i3-8130U vs AMD FX-6300

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 3 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD FX-6300

Price

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$ 639.00

$ 50.00

$ 589.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1216 points

1799 points

47% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2360 points

2999 points

27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

910 points

1441 points

58% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

872 points

1382 points

58% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.90 points

28.92 points

61% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1873 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1489 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

984 points

108% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

472 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1902 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1426 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1019 points

124% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

454 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.2 GHz

3.5 GHz

59% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

3.8 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

95 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

128 KiB

288 KiB

125% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB

6 MiB

1100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

8 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

897th of 1,089

757th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i3

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-8130U vs FX-6300 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-6300 beats the Core i3-8130U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-8130U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the FX-6300 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-8130U. Indeed, the FX-6300 has 3 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-8130U. It also has more threads than the Core i3-8130U. Our comparison shows that the FX-6300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-8130U. The info from our database shows that the FX-6300 has more L2 cache than the Core i3-8130U. The FX-6300 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-8130U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.