AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i7-3612QM

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1800 points

1831 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3003 points

3% slightly better gaming score

2900 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

1514 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1383 points

1454 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

32.42 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

1538 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

463 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

1692 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

501 points

10% 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

66% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

22% slightly higher turbo speed

3.1 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

774th of 1,114

771st of 1,114

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 i7-3612QM specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3612QM is faster than the FX-6300. Despite this, the FX-6300 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-3612QM has slightly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-6300 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 i7-3612QM. Also, the FX-6300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3612QM 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.

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.