AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i5-750

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

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 50.00
$ 39.97
$ 10.03 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points
30% slightly better overall score
1380 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points
17% slightly better gaming score
2543 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points
36% slightly better multitasking score
1054 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points
36% slightly better heavy workload score
1012 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points
51% significantly higher Blender score
19.06 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1235 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
431 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1182 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
423 points

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
31% slightly higher clock speed
2.66 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
18% slightly higher turbo speed
3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
Identical
95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

757th of 1,089
845th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2009 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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FX-6300 vs Core i5-750 comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-6300 beats the Core i5-750 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-750 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-750 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 i5-750. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-750.

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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