AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Xeon E5-1603 v3

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

1839 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

3374 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

1406 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

1350 points

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Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

29.86 points

3% slightly higher Blender 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

47% significantly lower TDP

140 W

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Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

757th of 1,089

753rd of 1,089

Family

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FX 6-Core Black Edition

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

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FX-6300 vs Xeon E5-1603 v3 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-1603 v3 performs better 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 Xeon E5-1603 v3 has slightly more cores with 4 cores compared to the FX-6300 that has 3 cores. Despite this, the FX-6300 has more threads than the Xeon E5-1603 v3. A FX-6300 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1603 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the FX-6300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.