Intel Core i5-8250U vs AMD FX-6300

Compare Intel 8th 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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$ 1527.00

$ 50.00

$ 1477.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1907 points

6% slightly better overall score

1799 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3207 points

6% slightly better gaming score

2999 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1532 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

1441 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1465 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

1382 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

1696 points

2098 points

23% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.03 points

31% slightly higher Blender score

28.92 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1971 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1489 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

771 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

472 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.6 GHz

3.5 GHz

118% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

3.8 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

533% 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

738th of 1,089

757th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-8250U vs FX-6300 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8250U beats the FX-6300 in overall performance. 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 i5-8250U has slightly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-6300 has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-6300. Our comparison shows that the FX-6300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8250U. In terms of cache, the FX-6300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8250U. The FX-6300 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i5-8250U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.