Intel Core i5-6600 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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$ 98.99

$ 50.00

$ 48.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2507 points

39% slightly better overall score

1799 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4645 points

54% significantly better gaming score

2999 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1909 points

32% slightly better multitasking score

1441 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1831 points

32% slightly better heavy workload score

1382 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3406 points

62% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

2098 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.76 points

65% significantly higher Blender score

28.92 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3416 points

129% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1489 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1249 points

164% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

472 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3562 points

149% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1426 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1297 points

185% 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

3.3 GHz

3.5 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 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

256 KiB

288 KiB

12% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

6 MiB

499% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

626th 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 i5-6600 vs FX-6300 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-6600 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 i5-6600 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 i5-6600. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6600. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-6300 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-6600. The FX-6300 also has slightly 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. For instance, the Core i5-6600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.