AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i7-3820QM

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 i7-3820QM

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 449.00 significantly less expensive

$ 499.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1800 points

1913 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3003 points

3059 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

1573 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1383 points

1510 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

41.56 points

43% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

2717 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

717 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

2007 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

602 points

32% 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

29% slightly higher clock speed

2.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 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

778th of 1,118

752nd 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 i7-3820QM comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3820QM beats the FX-6300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-6300 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-3820QM 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3820QM. Also, the FX-6300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3820QM 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.

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.