Intel Core i5-6400T vs AMD FX-6300

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 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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$ 189.95

$ 50.00

$ 139.95 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1487 points

1799 points

20% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2581 points

2999 points

16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1170 points

1441 points

23% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1126 points

1382 points

22% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

33.08 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

28.92 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2387 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1489 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

896 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

472 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2547 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1426 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

937 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

454 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly 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

2.8 GHz

3.8 GHz

35% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

171% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

812th of 1,089

757th of 1,089

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

DDR4-1866

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-6400T vs FX-6300 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-6300 beats the Core i5-6400T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6400T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-6400T has slightly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-6300 has 3 cores. Despite this, the FX-6300 has more threads than the Core i5-6400T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-6300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6400T.

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. For instance, the Core i5-6400T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.