Intel Core i7-6600U vs AMD FX-8300

Core i7-6600U vs FX-8300 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-8300 beats the Core i7-6600U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6600U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the FX-8300 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6600U. Indeed, the FX-8300 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-6600U. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6600U. Our comparison shows that the FX-8300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6600U. Also, the FX-8300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-6600U CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8300 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. Indeed, the Core i7-6600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.