AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Xeon E3-1225

Compare AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 3 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1225

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 299.95 significantly less expensive

$ 349.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1800 points

1912 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3003 points

3480 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

1470 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1383 points

1411 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

25.19 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

2142 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

647 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

1641 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

561 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

778th of 1,118

754th of 1,118

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Xeon E3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

FX-6300 vs Xeon E3-1225 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1225 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 Xeon E3-1225 has slightly more cores than the FX-6300. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1225 has 4 cores compared to 3 cores found in the FX-6300. Despite this, the FX-6300 has more threads than the Xeon E3-1225. Our comparison shows that the FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1225. Also, the FX-6300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the FX-6300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.