AMD FX-6300 vs Intel N97

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

5% slightly better overall score

1707 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

3251 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

1290 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

1238 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

33.82 points

16% 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

75% significantly higher clock speed

2 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

773rd 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 N97 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-6300 beats the N97 in overall performance. Despite this, the N97 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the N97 has slightly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-6300 has 3 cores. Despite this, the FX-6300 has more threads than the N97. Our comparison shows that the FX-6300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the N97. In terms of cache, the FX-6300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the N97. 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.