AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i5-3470S

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 i5-3470S

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 571.00 significantly less expensive

$ 621.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1800 points

1864 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3003 points

3436 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

1423 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1383 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

1365 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

28.42 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

1747 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

606 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

1722 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

598 points

31% 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

20% slightly higher clock speed

2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

778th of 1,118

768th of 1,118

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

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 i5-3470S benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3470S is faster than the FX-6300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-6300 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-3470S has slightly more cores with 4 cores compared to the FX-6300 that has 3 cores. Despite this, the FX-6300 has more threads than the Core i5-3470S. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-3470S. Also, the FX-6300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-3470S outputs less heat than FX-6300 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the FX-6300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.