AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i5-3570K

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

$ 89.00 significantly less expensive

$ 139.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

2217 points

23% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

4077 points

35% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

1694 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

1627 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2098 points

2970 points

41% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

35.69 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

2162 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

704 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

2062 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

688 points

51% 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

2% slightly higher clock speed

3.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

Identical

3.8 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

757th of 1,089

679th of 1,089

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 i5-3570K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-3570K 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 i5-3570K has slightly more cores than the FX-6300. Indeed, the Core i5-3570K has 4 cores compared to 3 cores found in the FX-6300. Despite this, the FX-6300 has more threads than the Core i5-3570K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3570K.

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.