AMD FX-6300 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1045T

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

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 50.00
$ 68.01 significantly less expensive
$ 118.01

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points
1887 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points
3022 points
0.77% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points
1539 points
6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points
1476 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points
4% slightly higher Blender score
27.64 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

3
6
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
Identical
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
29% slightly higher clock speed
2.7 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
3 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
744th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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FX-6300 vs Phenom II X6 1045T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X6 1045T is faster than the FX-6300. 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 X6 1045T has significantly more cores than the FX-6300. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1045T has 6 cores compared to 3 cores found in the FX-6300. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X6 1045T. In terms of cache, the FX-6300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Phenom II X6 1045T. 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.

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