AMD FX-6300 vs Intel N150

Compare AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 3 core CPU vs Intel 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

16% slightly better overall score

1546 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

3% slightly better gaming score

2906 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

1186 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

1150 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

31.61 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

337% significantly higher clock speed

0.8 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

200% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

757th of 1,089

802nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

FX-6300 vs N150 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-6300 beats the N150 in overall performance. Despite this, the N150 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the N150 has slightly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-6300 has 3 cores. Despite this, the FX-6300 has more threads than the N150. Our comparison shows that the FX-6300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the N150. The info from our database shows that the FX-6300 has more L2 cache than the N150. The FX-6300 also has slightly more 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.