AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i5-2300

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

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Price

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$ 50.00

$ 35.00

$ 15.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

3% slightly better overall score

1738 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

3210 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

1327 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

1273 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

25.92 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

1515 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

516 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

1499 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

510 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

25% slightly higher clock speed

2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

22% slightly higher turbo speed

3.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

757th of 1,089

769th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-6300 vs Core i5-2300 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-6300 is faster than the Core i5-2300. Despite this, the Core i5-2300 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-2300 has slightly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-6300 has 3 cores. Despite this, the FX-6300 has more threads than the Core i5-2300. Our comparison shows that the FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2300. Also, the FX-6300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.