AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i7-3770K

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 i7-3770K

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 294.89 significantly less expensive

$ 344.89

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1800 points

2699 points

49% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3003 points

4349 points

44% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

2208 points

53% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1383 points

2118 points

53% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2098 points

2148 points

2% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

47.21 points

63% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

2474 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

708 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

2489 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

709 points

56% significantly 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

Identical

3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

3.9 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

77 W

23% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

778th of 1,118

609th of 1,118

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 i7-3770K specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-3770K performs better than the FX-6300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-6300 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-3770K has slightly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-6300 has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-6300. In terms of clock speed, the FX-6300 and Core i7-3770K are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i7-3770K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3770K outputs less heat than FX-6300 thanks to a slightly 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.