AMD FX-6300 vs AMD Ryzen 5 4500

Compare AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 3 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 50.00
$ 18.37 significantly less expensive
$ 68.37

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points
5312 points
195% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points
7287 points
142% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points
4672 points
224% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points
4523 points
227% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2098 points
4824 points
129% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points
124.29 points
329% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points
6235 points
337% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points
1560 points
243% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

3
6
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
12
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
3.6 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
4.1 GHz
7% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
65 W
46% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

288 KiB
384 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache

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
Identical
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

757th of 1,089
309th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

FX-6300 vs Ryzen 5 4500 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 4500 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 Ryzen 5 4500 has significantly more cores than the FX-6300. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4500 has 6 cores compared to 3 cores found in the FX-6300. It also has more threads than the FX-6300. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 4500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-6300. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-6300 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 4500. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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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