AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i7-4790K

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 i7-4790K

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 233.12 significantly less expensive

$ 283.12

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1800 points

3131 points

73% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3003 points

5061 points

68% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

2562 points

77% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1383 points

2460 points

77% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2098 points

2813 points

34% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

73.53 points

154% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

4415 points

196% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

1357 points

187% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

4402 points

208% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

1403 points

209% 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

4 GHz

14% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

4.4 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

88 W

7% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

778th of 1,118

538th of 1,118

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 i7-4790K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4790K beats the FX-6300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-6300 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-4790K has slightly more cores than the FX-6300. Indeed, the Core i7-4790K has 4 cores compared to 3 cores found in the FX-6300. It also has more threads than the FX-6300. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4790K has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-6300. Also, the Core i7-4790K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4790K 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.

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.