AMD FX-6300 vs AMD Phenom II X4 980

FX-6300 vs Phenom II X4 980 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X4 980 beats the FX-6300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-6300 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X4 980 has slightly more cores than the FX-6300. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 980 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 980. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 980 has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-6300. In terms of cache, the FX-6300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Phenom II X4 980. 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.