AMD FX-6300 vs AMD Athlon Gold 7220U

Compare AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 3 core CPU vs AMD Athlon 7000 Series 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

1% slightly better overall score

1781 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

3465 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

1333 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

1279 points

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Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

2215 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

1047 points

130% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

45% significantly higher clock speed

2.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

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

499% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

757th of 1,089

761st of 1,089

Family

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FX 6-Core Black Edition

Athlon 7000 Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

FX-6300 vs Athlon Gold 7220U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-6300 performs better than the Athlon Gold 7220U. Despite this, the Athlon Gold 7220U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the FX-6300 has significantly more cores with 3 cores compared to the Athlon Gold 7220U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon Gold 7220U. Our comparison shows that the FX-6300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon Gold 7220U. Also, the FX-6300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Athlon Gold 7220U outputs less heat than FX-6300 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the FX-6300 has more L2 cache than the Athlon Gold 7220U. The FX-6300 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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