AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Xeon E5-620

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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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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points
12% slightly higher Blender score
25.76 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points
1482 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) 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

3
4
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
8
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

766th of 1,102
754th of 1,102

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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Yes

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