AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core i7-975

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

1889 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

3014 points

0.50% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

1556 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

1494 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

2411 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

596 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

1859 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

538 points

18% 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

5% slightly higher clock speed

3.33 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 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

757th of 1,089

742nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 May

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 i7-975 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-975 is faster than the FX-6300. Despite this, the FX-6300 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-975 has slightly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-6300 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 i7-975.

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.