AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i7-4930MX

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

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Intel Core i7-4930MX

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 249.01 significantly less expensive

$ 299.01

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

2463 points

36% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

4049 points

35% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

2003 points

39% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

1926 points

39% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

50.02 points

73% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

3101 points

108% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

873 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

3648 points

155% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

1251 points

175% 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

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.20 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

3.9 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

57 W

66% 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

636th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Core X-series

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 i7-4930MX comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-4930MX performs better than the FX-6300. 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 i7-4930MX 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 i7-4930MX. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-6300 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-4930MX. 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.