AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600

FX-6300 vs Core 2 Quad Q6600 comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-6300 beats the Core 2 Quad Q6600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Quad Q6600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has slightly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-6300 has 3 cores. Despite this, the FX-6300 has more threads than the Core 2 Quad Q6600. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-6300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Quad Q6600. The info from our database shows that the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has more L2 cache than the FX-6300

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