Intel Core i7-6600U vs AMD FX-4300

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 2 core CPU vs AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD FX-4300

Price

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$ 2749.00

$ 49.00

$ 2700.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1166 points

1352 points

15% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2340 points

2531 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

858 points

1026 points

19% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

820 points

986 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23.09 points

33% slightly higher Blender score

17.26 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

3.8 GHz

46% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

4 GHz

17% 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

908th of 1,089

855th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7

FX 4-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

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-6600U vs FX-4300 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-4300 beats the Core i7-6600U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-6600U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-4300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6600U. A Core i7-6600U CPU outputs less heat than a FX-4300 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-6600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.