AMD FX-6300 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

FX-6300 vs Phenom II X6 1100T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X6 1100T beats the FX-6300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-6300 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the FX-6300 that has 3 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X6 1100T. In terms of cache, the FX-6300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Phenom II X6 1100T. 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.