AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i3-4370

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. The Core i3-4370 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.