AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i3-1005G1

Compare AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 3 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i3 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i3-1005G1

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 367.00 significantly less expensive

$ 417.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

15% slightly better overall score

1557 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

3091 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

24% slightly better multitasking score

1157 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

24% slightly better heavy workload score

1109 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

50% significantly higher Blender score

19.22 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

2296 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

1234 points

161% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

2396 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

1289 points

183% 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

191% significantly higher clock speed

1.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 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

125% significantly more L1 cache

128 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

1100% significantly more L2 cache

0.5 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

798th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

10th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-6300 vs Core i3-1005G1 comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-6300 beats the Core i3-1005G1 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-1005G1 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the FX-6300 has significantly more cores with 3 cores whereas the Core i3-1005G1 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-1005G1. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-6300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1005G1. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-6300 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-1005G1. The FX-6300 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.