AMD FX-6300

AMD FX-6300 Benchmark and Specs

AMD FX-6300 Processor benchmark and specs - 4 GHz 3 core AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition CPU rating. Is the FX-6300 good for gaming?

Benchmark Score

18 %
Average score from 8 samples
Low uncertainty
Performance
Average
Ranking
424th of 622
Popularity
277th of 622
Samples
8 benchmarks

CPU benchmarks

Here are the performance results of this CPU in both the hardwareDB Benchmark and other benchmark utilities. Synthetic tests are an estimation of real-world performance using consistent and repeatable benchmarks.

Overall

Average

18 %

Gaming

Good

30 %

Multitasking

Average

14 %

Heavy Workloads

Average

14 %

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Alternative benchmarks

Here are some benchmark results using alternative testing software

3DMark Physics

3DMark Physics

Physics simulation benchmark

2,087
Blender

Blender

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

29
Geekbench 5 (multi)

Geekbench 5 (multi)

Multi threaded benchmark

1,489
Geekbench 5 (single)

Geekbench 5 (single)

Single threaded benchmark

472
Geekbench 6 (multi)

Geekbench 6 (multi)

Multi threaded benchmark

1,502
Geekbench 6 (single)

Geekbench 6 (single)

Single threaded benchmark

475

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CPU Comparison

The AMD FX-6300 compared against popular alternatives. Compare against more CPUs with our CPU Comparison Tool.

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
61 %
Intel Core i7-930
19 %
Intel Core i5-3470S
19 %
AMD FX-6300
18 %
Intel Pentium G4560
16 %
Intel Core i5-6400T
14 %
Intel Core i5-750
14 %

Specifications

Clock Speed 3.5 GHz
Cores 3
Threads 6
L1 Cache 288 KiB
L2 Cache 6144 KiB
L3 Cache 8 MiB
PCIe Revision 3
Family FX 6-Core Black Edition
Memory Type DDR3

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AMD FX-6300

The FX-6300 is a 3 core CPU from AMD. This chip has an average overall score at 18% in our CPU benchmark. Our gaming benchmark shows that this CPU is a good processor for gaming, with a score of 30%. As for multitasking and heavy workloads, the FX-6300 scores 14% and 14% respectively. Indeed, this is an average rating for very heavy workloads.

The FX-6300 has 3 cores and 6 threads. This CPU makes use of simultaneous multithreading technology to improve performance on parallel tasks. Each physical CPU core is divided into multiple logical processors. This AMD CPU has a clock speed of 3.5 GHz.

As for memory, the FX-6300 makes use of DDR3 memory. The faster the memory, the better. Faster memory means that the CPU doesn't have to wait to get the data it needs.

In terms of cache, the FX-6300 has 288 KiB of level 1 cache, 6 MiB of level 2 cache and 8 MiB of level 3 cache. This is a fast memory located close to the processor, which stores copies of frequently used data from main memory.

This CPU has fast connectivity with support for PCI-Express Gen 3. The faster the PCIe link, the better. This allows for better performance with GPUs and NVME SSDs.

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