AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i5-4300M

Compare AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 3 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-4300M

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 419.00 significantly less expensive

$ 469.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1801 points

37% slightly better overall score

1314 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3005 points

13% slightly better gaming score

2638 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1442 points

48% significantly better multitasking score

972 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1383 points

47% significantly better heavy workload score

937 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

52% significantly higher Blender score

18.96 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

1708 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

844 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

1842 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

949 points

109% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

34% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

37 W

156% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

781st of 1,124

893rd of 1,124

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 November

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 i5-4300M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-6300 beats the Core i5-4300M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4300M in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the FX-6300 has significantly more cores with 3 cores compared to the Core i5-4300M that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4300M. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4300M. Also, the FX-6300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-4300M 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.

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.