AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i7-2820QM

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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Intel Core i7-2820QM

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 179.95 significantly less expensive

$ 229.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

2212 points

22% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

3474 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

1842 points

27% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

1774 points

28% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

26.94 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1202 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

520 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

1622 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

519 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

52% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 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

45 W

111% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

757th of 1,089

680th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-6300 vs Core i7-2820QM benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-2820QM is faster than the FX-6300. Despite this, the FX-6300 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-2820QM has slightly more cores with 4 cores compared to the FX-6300 that has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-6300. Our comparison shows that the FX-6300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-2820QM.

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.