AMD FX-6300 vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Compare AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 3 core CPU vs AMD 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Phenom II X4 945

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 48.02

$ 1.98 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

24% slightly better overall score

1445 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

12% slightly better gaming score

2654 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

30% slightly better multitasking score

1105 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

30% slightly better heavy workload score

1061 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

45% significantly higher Blender score

19.89 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1342 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

398 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1037 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

342 points

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

16% slightly higher clock speed

3 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

822nd 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 Phenom II X4 945 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-6300 beats the Phenom II X4 945 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 945 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X4 945 has slightly more cores with 4 cores compared to the FX-6300 that has 3 cores. Despite this, the FX-6300 has more threads than the Phenom II X4 945. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X4 945. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-6300 has significantly more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 945. The FX-6300 also has slightly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the FX-6300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.