AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i3-4340

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 i3-4340

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 31.04

$ 18.96 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

19% slightly better overall score

1509 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

3025 points

0.87% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

29% slightly better multitasking score

1116 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

29% slightly better heavy workload score

1071 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

1711 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

805 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

2126 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

1024 points

125% 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

3.6 GHz

2% 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

805th 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

2013 August

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 i3-4340 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-6300 beats the Core i3-4340 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-4340 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 Core i3-4340 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-4340. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-4340 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-6300.

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.