AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i7-860

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

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Intel Core i7-860

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 4.25 slightly less expensive

$ 54.25

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1800 points

10% slightly better overall score

1632 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3003 points

15% slightly better gaming score

2607 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

1342 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1383 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

1289 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

30.74 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

0.95% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1475 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

441 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

1475 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

0.67% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

451 points

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

25% slightly higher clock speed

2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

9% slightly higher turbo speed

3.46 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

778th of 1,118

804th of 1,118

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-6300 vs Core i7-860 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-6300 performs better than the Core i7-860. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-860 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-860 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 slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-860. Also, the FX-6300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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.