AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Pentium G4560

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

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Intel Pentium G4560

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 35.00 significantly less expensive

$ 85.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

15% slightly better overall score

1563 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

2% slightly better gaming score

2914 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

1189 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

21% slightly better heavy workload score

1142 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

26.56 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1455 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

686 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

1450 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

712 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

Identical

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

54 W

75% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

288 KiB

125% significantly more L1 cache

128 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

1100% significantly more L2 cache

0.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

166% significantly more L3 cache

3 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

757th of 1,089

794th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

FX-6300 vs Pentium G4560 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-6300 is faster than the Pentium G4560. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G4560 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the FX-6300 has significantly more cores with 3 cores compared to the Pentium G4560 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G4560. Both the FX-6300 and Pentium G4560 have the same clock speed. The info from our database shows that the FX-6300 has more L2 cache than the Pentium G4560. The FX-6300 also has significantly 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.