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.

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.