Intel Core i9-11900KF vs AMD FX-6300

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i9 8 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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$ 439.00

$ 50.00

$ 389.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8335 points

363% significantly better overall score

1799 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10716 points

257% significantly better gaming score

2999 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7549 points

423% significantly better multitasking score

1441 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7340 points

431% significantly better heavy workload score

1382 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8401 points

300% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

2098 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

206.76 points

615% significantly higher Blender score

28.92 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10199 points

584% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1489 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2260 points

378% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

472 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9980 points

599% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1426 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2320 points

411% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

454 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

Identical

3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz

39% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

95 W

31% slightly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB

122% significantly more L1 cache

288 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

6 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

133rd of 1,089

757th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i9

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-11900KF vs FX-6300 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-11900KF 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 i9-11900KF has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the FX-6300 has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-6300. In terms of clock speed, the Core i9-11900KF and FX-6300 are identical in this regard. The info from our database shows that the FX-6300 has more L2 cache than the Core i9-11900KF. Despite this, the Core i9-11900KF has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-6300.

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 i9-11900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.