AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i5-2500K

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

$ 83.55 significantly less expensive

$ 133.55

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1800 points

2325 points

29% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3003 points

4281 points

42% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

1776 points

23% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1383 points

1704 points

23% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2098 points

2748 points

30% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

34.51 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

1893 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

629 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

1910 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

650 points

43% significantly 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

778th of 1,118

674th of 1,118

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 i5-2500K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-2500K performs better than the FX-6300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-6300 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-2500K has slightly more cores than the FX-6300. Indeed, the Core i5-2500K has 4 cores compared to 3 cores found in the FX-6300. Despite this, the FX-6300 has more threads than the Core i5-2500K. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-2500K. 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.

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.