Intel Core i5-11600KF vs AMD FX-6300

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 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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$ 208.31

$ 50.00

$ 158.31 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6657 points

270% significantly better overall score

1799 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9464 points

215% significantly better gaming score

2999 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5784 points

301% significantly better multitasking score

1441 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5598 points

305% significantly better heavy workload score

1382 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6309 points

200% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

2098 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

151.30 points

423% significantly higher Blender score

28.92 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8483 points

469% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1489 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2086 points

341% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

472 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8630 points

505% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1426 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2226 points

390% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

454 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz

11% slightly higher clock speed

3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

28% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

95 W

31% slightly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

480 KiB

66% significantly more L1 cache

288 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

6 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

213th of 1,089

757th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-11600KF vs FX-6300 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11600KF is faster than the FX-6300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-6300 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-11600KF has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the FX-6300 has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-6300. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11600KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-6300. In terms of cache, the FX-6300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-11600KF. Despite this, the Core i5-11600KF has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-6300.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-11600KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.