AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i5-3330

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 i5-3330

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 149.00 significantly less expensive

$ 199.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1800 points

0.78% slightly better overall score

1786 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3003 points

3295 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

1364 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1383 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

1310 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

24.32 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

1533 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

538 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

1647 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

558 points

22% 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

16% slightly higher clock speed

3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

18% slightly higher turbo speed

3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

77 W

23% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

778th of 1,118

780th of 1,118

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-6300 vs Core i5-3330 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-6300 is faster than the Core i5-3330. Despite this, the Core i5-3330 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-3330 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 i5-3330. Our comparison shows that the FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3330. Also, the FX-6300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-3330 outputs less heat than FX-6300 thanks to a slightly 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.