AMD FX-6300 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700X

Compare AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 3 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 7700X

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 196.84 significantly less expensive

$ 246.84

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

10008 points

456% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

12170 points

305% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

9291 points

544% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

9088 points

557% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2098 points

9007 points

329% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

281.95 points

875% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

15168 points

918% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

2857 points

505% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

15466 points

984% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

2977 points

555% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

4.50 GHz

28% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

5.4 GHz

42% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

10% slightly lower TDP

105 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

288 KiB

512 KiB

77% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

8 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

32 MiB

300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

757th of 1,089

89th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-6300 vs Ryzen 7 7700X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7700X is faster than the FX-6300. 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 Ryzen 7 7700X has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the FX-6300 that has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-6300. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7700X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-6300. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 7700X has more L2 cache than the FX-6300. The Ryzen 7 7700X also has significantly 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.