Intel Core i9-9900K vs AMD FX-6300

Core i9-9900K vs FX-6300 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9900K 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 i9-9900K has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the FX-6300 has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-6300. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-6300. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-6300 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900K. Despite this, the Core i9-9900K has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-6300.

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 i9-9900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.