AMD FX-6300 vs AMD FX-9370

Compare AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 3 core CPU vs AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD FX-9370

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 162.02 significantly less expensive

$ 212.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

2779 points

54% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

4131 points

37% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

2350 points

63% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

2255 points

63% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

51.74 points

78% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

2272 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

545 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

2031 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

514 points

13% 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

4.4 GHz

25% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

4.7 GHz

23% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

131% significantly lower TDP

220 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

288 KiB

384 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

8 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

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

575th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

FX 8-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-9370 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-9370 is faster than the FX-6300. 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 FX-9370 has slightly more cores than the FX-6300. Indeed, the FX-9370 has 4 cores compared to 3 cores found in the FX-6300. It also has more threads than the FX-6300. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-9370 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-6300. In terms of cache, the FX-9370 has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the FX-6300. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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.