Intel Core i5-7200U vs AMD FX-6300

Compare Intel 7th 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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$ 1956.00

$ 50.00

$ 1906.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1241 points

1799 points

44% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2452 points

2999 points

22% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

924 points

1441 points

55% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

887 points

1382 points

55% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

22.30 points

28.92 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1316 points

1489 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

508 points

7% 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

2.5 GHz

3.5 GHz

40% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.1 GHz

3.8 GHz

22% 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

889th of 1,089

757th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 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 i5-7200U vs FX-6300 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-6300 is faster than the Core i5-7200U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7200U 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 i5-7200U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7200U. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-7200U.

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. Indeed, the Core i5-7200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.