AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i3-4170

FX-6300 vs Core i3-4170 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-6300 is faster than the Core i3-4170. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-4170 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the FX-6300 has significantly more cores with 3 cores whereas the Core i3-4170 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-4170. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-4170 has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-6300. The Core i3-4170 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.

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.