AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i7-960

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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Price

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$ 50.00

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$ 150.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1800 points

1995 points

10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3003 points

3216 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

1629 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1383 points

1563 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

32.27 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

1700 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

503 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

1672 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

492 points

8% slightly 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

3.2 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

36% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

778th of 1,118

739th of 1,118

Family

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FX 6-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 November

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 i7-960 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-960 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 i7-960 has slightly more cores than the FX-6300. Indeed, the Core i7-960 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 FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-960. Also, the FX-6300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A FX-6300 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-960 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.