AMD FX-6300 vs AMD A10-7890K

Compare AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 3 core CPU vs AMD A10-Series APU for Desktops 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

1799 points

32% slightly better overall score

1356 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

15% slightly better gaming score

2586 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

41% slightly better multitasking score

1021 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

41% slightly better heavy workload score

978 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

26.81 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

4.1 GHz

17% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

4.3 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

288 KiB

12% slightly more L1 cache

256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

757th of 1,089

853rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

A10-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-6300 vs A10-7890K comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-6300 beats the A10-7890K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-7890K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the FX-6300 has significantly more cores than the A10-7890K. Indeed, the FX-6300 has 3 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A10-7890K. It also has more threads than the A10-7890K. Our comparison shows that the A10-7890K 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 A10-7890K

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 FX-6300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.