AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3

Compare AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 3 core CPU vs Intel 12 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

4747 points

163% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

4747 points

58% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

4738 points

228% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

4727 points

242% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

150.60 points

420% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

1528 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

0.43% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

470 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

1527 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

712 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

300% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

15% slightly lower TDP

110 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

757th of 1,089

370th 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 E5-2673 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2673 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2673 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the FX-6300 that has 3 cores. It also has more threads than 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.