Intel Core i7-8550U vs AMD FX-6300

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 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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$ 969.00

$ 50.00

$ 919.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2085 points

15% slightly better overall score

1799 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3523 points

17% slightly better gaming score

2999 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1671 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

1441 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1597 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

1382 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.52 points

50% significantly higher Blender score

28.92 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2622 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1489 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

878 points

86% 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

1.8 GHz

3.5 GHz

94% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

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

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

706th of 1,089

757th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

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 i7-8550U vs FX-6300 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8550U beats the FX-6300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-6300 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-8550U has slightly more cores than the FX-6300. Indeed, the Core i7-8550U has 4 cores compared to 3 cores found in the FX-6300. 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 i7-8550U. In terms of cache, the FX-6300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8550U. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 i7-8550U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.