AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Pentium Gold G6405

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 G6405

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 39.75 significantly less expensive

$ 89.75

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

0.78% slightly better overall score

1785 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

3540 points

18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

1329 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

1277 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

32.22 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

1714 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

842 points

85% 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

4.1 GHz

17% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

58 W

63% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

757th of 1,089

760th 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

2021 February

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 G6405 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-6300 beats the Pentium Gold G6405 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium Gold G6405 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the FX-6300 has significantly more cores with 3 cores compared to the Pentium Gold G6405 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G6405. Our comparison shows that the Pentium Gold G6405 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-6300.

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.