AMD FX-6300 vs AMD Phenom II X4 965

FX-6300 vs Phenom II X4 965 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-6300 is faster than the Phenom II X4 965. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 965 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X4 965 has slightly more cores than the FX-6300. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 965 has 4 cores compared to 3 cores found in the FX-6300. Despite this, the FX-6300 has more threads than the Phenom II X4 965. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X4 965. The info from our database shows that the FX-6300 has more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 965. 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.