AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i7-3610QM

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 i7-3610QM

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 139.95 significantly less expensive

$ 189.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

1810 points

0.61% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

0.60% slightly better gaming score

2981 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

1464 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

1405 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

37.63 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

1794 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

531 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

1836 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

539 points

18% 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

15% slightly higher turbo speed

3.3 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

756th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 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 i7-3610QM comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3610QM beats the FX-6300 in overall performance. Despite this, the FX-6300 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-3610QM has slightly more cores than the FX-6300. Indeed, the Core i7-3610QM has 4 cores compared to 3 cores found in the FX-6300. It also has more threads than the FX-6300. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-6300 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3610QM. Also, the FX-6300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3610QM outputs less heat than FX-6300 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.