AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i7-4712MQ

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 i7-4712MQ

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 718.00 significantly less expensive

$ 768.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

3% slightly better overall score

1744 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

3% slightly better gaming score

2886 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

1409 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

1352 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

30.27 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

2448 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

953 points

101% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

2892 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

948 points

108% 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

52% significantly higher clock speed

2.30 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

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

767th 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

2014 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 i7-4712MQ comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-6300 beats the Core i7-4712MQ in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4712MQ in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-4712MQ 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. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-6300 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4712MQ. The info from our database shows that the FX-6300 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-4712MQ. The FX-6300 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.