AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i7-4702MQ

Compare AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 3 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-4702MQ

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 239.95 significantly less expensive

$ 289.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

2075 points

15% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

3306 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

1711 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

1645 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

44.49 points

53% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

2821 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

919 points

94% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

2949 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

956 points

110% 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

59% significantly higher clock speed

2.20 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

18% slightly higher turbo speed

3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

37 W

156% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

2299% significantly more L2 cache

0.25 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

757th of 1,089

707th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 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 i7-4702MQ benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4702MQ beats the FX-6300 in overall performance. Despite this, the FX-6300 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-4702MQ has slightly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-6300 has 3 cores. 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 i7-4702MQ. In terms of cache, the FX-6300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-4702MQ. The FX-6300 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.