AMD FX-6300 vs AMD FX-4300

Compare AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 3 core CPU vs AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD FX-4300

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 49.00

$ 1.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1800 points

33% slightly better overall score

1352 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3003 points

18% slightly better gaming score

2531 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

40% slightly better multitasking score

1026 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1383 points

40% slightly better heavy workload score

986 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

67% significantly higher Blender score

17.26 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1076 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

434 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1111 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

0.22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

453 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

3.8 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

4 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

288 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

192 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

778th of 1,118

878th of 1,118

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-6300 vs FX-4300 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-6300 is faster than the FX-4300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4300 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the FX-6300 has significantly more cores with 3 cores whereas the FX-4300 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-4300. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-4300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-6300. Also, the FX-4300 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. The info from our database shows that the FX-6300 has more L2 cache than the FX-4300. The FX-6300 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the FX-6300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.