AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i3-4370

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

13% slightly better overall score

1591 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

3153 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

1182 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

21% slightly better heavy workload score

1135 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

34% slightly higher Blender score

21.44 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

1825 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

832 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

2388 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

1205 points

165% 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

3.8 GHz

8% 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

789th 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

2014 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 i3-4370 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-6300 performs better than the Core i3-4370. Despite this, the Core i3-4370 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 i3-4370 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-4370. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-4370 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.