AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Xeon E5-620

Compare AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 3 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 4 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

1800 points

1884 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3003 points

13% slightly better gaming score

2639 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

1648 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1383 points

1596 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

25.76 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

1482 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

366 points

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

38% slightly higher clock speed

2.53 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

42% much higher turbo speed

2.66 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

80 W

18% slightly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

2299% significantly more L2 cache

0.25 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

68166% significantly more L3 cache

0.01 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

774th of 1,114

761st of 1,114

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 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 E5-620 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-620 beats the FX-6300 in overall performance. Despite this, the FX-6300 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-620 has slightly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-6300 has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-6300. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-620. Also, the FX-6300 has a much higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-620 outputs less heat than FX-6300 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the FX-6300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-620. The FX-6300 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.