AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W

Compare AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 3 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 50.00
$ 949.00 significantly less expensive
$ 999.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1800 points
4113 points
128% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3003 points
4879 points
62% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points
3854 points
167% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1383 points
3775 points
172% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points
87.34 points
202% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points
5319 points
257% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points
716 points
51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points
3443 points
141% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points
592 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

3
8
166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
16
166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
12% slightly higher clock speed
3.10 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
Identical
3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
57% significantly lower TDP
150 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache
2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
20 MiB
150% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

778th of 1,118
442nd of 1,118

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

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

FX-6300 vs Xeon E5-2687W comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2687W is faster 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 E5-2687W has significantly more cores than the FX-6300. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2687W has 8 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 E5-2687W. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A FX-6300 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2687W CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-6300 has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2687W. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2687W has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-6300.

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.

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