AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3

Compare AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 3 core CPU vs Intel 10 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

4823 points

168% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

5321 points

77% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

4658 points

223% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

4614 points

233% significantly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2098 points

4806 points

129% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

152.03 points

425% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

233% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

233% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

20% slightly higher clock speed

2.90 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

139% significantly more L2 cache

2.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

25 MiB

212% significantly more L3 cache

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Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

757th of 1,089

363rd of 1,089

Family

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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 E5-2666 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 beats the FX-6300 in overall performance. 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 E5-2666 v3 has significantly more cores than the FX-6300. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has 10 cores compared to 3 cores found in the FX-6300. It also has more threads than the FX-6300. Our comparison shows that the FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2666 v3. In terms of cache, the FX-6300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-6300.

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.