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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Intel Xeon E5-2687W

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 949.00 significantly less expensive

$ 999.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

4113 points

128% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 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

1382 points

3775 points

173% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

87.34 points

202% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

5319 points

257% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

716 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

3443 points

141% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) 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

166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

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

757th of 1,089

426th 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 E5-2687W 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. The info from our database shows that the FX-6300 has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2687W. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2687W has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-6300.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the FX-6300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.