AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i5-2500

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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Intel Core i5-2500

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 85.87 significantly less expensive

$ 135.87

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

1975 points

9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

3663 points

22% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

1502 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

1441 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

26.26 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

1687 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

571 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

1692 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

592 points

30% 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

6% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 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

725th 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 i5-2500 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-2500 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 i5-2500 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 i5-2500. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-2500.

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.