AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Xeon E5-1603

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

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Intel Xeon E5-1603

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 702.00 significantly less expensive

$ 752.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

15% slightly better overall score

1564 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

4% slightly better gaming score

2883 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

20% slightly better multitasking score

1194 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

1145 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

22.30 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

1999 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

567 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

1475 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

468 points

3% 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

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

36% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

757th of 1,089

793rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

FX-6300 vs Xeon E5-1603 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-6300 performs better than the Xeon E5-1603. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1603 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-1603 has slightly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-6300 has 3 cores. Despite this, the FX-6300 has more threads than the Xeon E5-1603.

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.