AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Xeon E5-2643

Compare AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 3 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2643

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 2107.00 significantly less expensive

$ 2157.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

2971 points

65% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

4108 points

36% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

2620 points

81% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

2542 points

83% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

40.83 points

41% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

2888 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

646 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

2094 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

566 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

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

542nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

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 E5-2643 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2643 performs better 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 E5-2643 has slightly more cores than the FX-6300. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2643 has 4 cores compared to 3 cores found in the FX-6300. It also has more threads than the FX-6300. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2643.

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.