Intel Core i5-6200U vs AMD FX-6300

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 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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$ 1448.00

$ 50.00

$ 1398.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1045 points

1800 points

72% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2029 points

3003 points

48% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

783 points

1441 points

84% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

751 points

1383 points

84% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.78 points

28.92 points

39% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1333 points

1489 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

558 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

472 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

2.3 GHz

3.5 GHz

52% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.8 GHz

3.8 GHz

35% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

960th of 1,118

778th of 1,118

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-6200U vs FX-6300 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-6300 is faster than the Core i5-6200U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6200U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the FX-6300 has significantly more cores with 3 cores compared to the Core i5-6200U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6200U. Our comparison shows that the FX-6300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6200U. Also, the FX-6300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-6200U CPU outputs less heat than a FX-6300 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i5-6200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.