AMD FX-4300 vs Intel Core i7-6498DU

Compare AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core CPU vs Intel 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1352 points

1361 points

0.67% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2531 points

2723 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1026 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

1012 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

975 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.26 points

32.79 points

89% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

46% significantly higher clock speed

2.60 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

0.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

Identical

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

855th of 1,089

851st of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-4300 vs Core i7-6498DU comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-6498DU beats the FX-4300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4300 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-4300 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6498DU. The info from our database shows that the FX-4300 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6498DU. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the FX-4300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.