AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i5-4460

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

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Intel Core i5-4460

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 14.04 slightly less expensive

$ 64.04

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

2038 points

13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

3756 points

25% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

1556 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

1494 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2098 points

2725 points

29% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

41.05 points

41% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

2935 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

1032 points

118% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

2954 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

1068 points

135% 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

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.20 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

84 W

13% slightly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

499% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

757th of 1,089

709th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 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 i5-4460 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-4460 beats the FX-6300 in overall performance. 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 i5-4460 has slightly more cores than the FX-6300. Indeed, the Core i5-4460 has 4 cores compared to 3 cores found in the FX-6300. Despite this, the FX-6300 has more threads than the Core i5-4460. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4460. The info from our database shows that the FX-6300 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-4460. The FX-6300 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.