AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Xeon X3450

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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Intel Xeon X3450

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 48.66

$ 1.34 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

4% slightly better overall score

1719 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

8% slightly better gaming score

2768 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

1407 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

1350 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

39.82 points

37% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

1454 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

432 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

31% slightly higher clock speed

2.66 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

18% slightly higher turbo speed

3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

8 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

757th of 1,089

770th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 August

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 X3450 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-6300 is faster than the Xeon X3450. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X3450 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon X3450 has slightly more cores than the FX-6300. Indeed, the Xeon X3450 has 4 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 X3450. Also, the FX-6300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Xeon X3450 has more L2 cache than 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.