AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i7-4900MQ

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 i7-4900MQ

Price

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$ 50.00

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$ 200.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

2307 points

28% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

3862 points

28% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

1859 points

29% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

1784 points

29% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

54.97 points

90% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

2842 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

933 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

3402 points

138% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

1123 points

147% 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

24% slightly higher clock speed

2.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

Identical

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

47 W

102% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

499% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

757th of 1,089

659th 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 i7-4900MQ specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-6300 is faster than the Core i7-4900MQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4900MQ in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-4900MQ 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. Our comparison shows that the FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4900MQ. The info from our database shows that the FX-6300 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-4900MQ. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.