AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i5-4460T

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points
305% significantly better overall score
444 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points
263% significantly better gaming score
826 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points
320% significantly better multitasking score
343 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points
312% significantly better heavy workload score
335 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points
1848 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points
602 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points
2174 points
52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points
807 points
77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

3
4
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
49% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
84% significantly higher clock speed
1.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
40% slightly higher turbo speed
2.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
35 W
171% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

757th of 1,089
1,078th 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

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

FX-6300 vs Core i5-4460T benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-6300 performs better than the Core i5-4460T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4460T in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-4460T has slightly more cores than the FX-6300. Indeed, the Core i5-4460T has 4 cores compared to 3 cores found in the FX-6300. Despite this, the FX-6300 has more threads than the Core i5-4460T. Our comparison shows that the FX-6300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4460T.

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.

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