AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i3-4170

Compare AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 3 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i3 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i3-4170

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 41.60

$ 8.40 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

20% slightly better overall score

1489 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

4% slightly better gaming score

2858 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

28% slightly better multitasking score

1121 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

28% slightly better heavy workload score

1076 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

27.13 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

2036 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

1049 points

122% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

2163 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

1119 points

146% 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

3.7 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

54 W

75% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

757th of 1,089

811th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

4th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

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.

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.