AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i5-4460S

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 i5-4460S

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 109.95 significantly less expensive

$ 159.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

1911 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

3523 points

17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

1459 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

1403 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

33.53 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

2689 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

971 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

2749 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

1026 points

125% 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

20% slightly higher clock speed

2.9 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

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

757th of 1,089

736th 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 i5-4460S specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-4460S 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 i5-4460S 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 i5-4460S. Our comparison shows that the FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4460S.

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.