AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Pentium Gold G6400

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

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Intel Pentium Gold G6400

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 29.83 significantly less expensive

$ 79.83

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

0.28% slightly better overall score

1794 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

3637 points

21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

1325 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

1273 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

36.40 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

1655 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

804 points

77% 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

4.01 GHz

14% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

58 W

63% 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

100% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

757th of 1,089

758th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

FX-6300 vs Pentium Gold G6400 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium Gold G6400 is faster than the FX-6300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-6300 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 Pentium Gold G6400 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G6400. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium Gold G6400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-6300. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-6300 has significantly more L2 cache than the Pentium Gold G6400. 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.