AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i5-14600KF

Compare AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 3 core CPU vs Intel 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-14600KF

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 149.99 significantly less expensive

$ 199.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

11287 points

527% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

13345 points

344% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

10649 points

639% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

10530 points

661% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2098 points

10627 points

406% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

309.52 points

970% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

15636 points

996% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

2781 points

512% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

366% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

233% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

Identical

3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

5.3 GHz

39% slightly higher turbo speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

8 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

24 MiB

200% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

757th of 1,089

63rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

FX-6300 vs Core i5-14600KF specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-14600KF is faster than the FX-6300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-6300 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-14600KF has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the FX-6300 has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-6300. In terms of clock speed, the FX-6300 and Core i5-14600KF are identical in this regard. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-14600KF has slightly more L2 cache than the FX-6300. The Core i5-14600KF also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.