AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Xeon X5470

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 X5470

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 242.42 significantly less expensive

$ 292.42

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1800 points

2% slightly better overall score

1760 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3003 points

3238 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

1344 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1383 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

1290 points

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

4% slightly higher clock speed

3.34 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

26% slightly lower TDP

120 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

12 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

778th of 1,118

786th of 1,118

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

FX-6300 vs Xeon X5470 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-6300 is faster than the Xeon X5470. Despite this, the Xeon X5470 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon X5470 has slightly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-6300 has 3 cores. Despite this, the FX-6300 has more threads than the Xeon X5470. Our comparison shows that the FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X5470. A FX-6300 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5470 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. 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 X5470 has more L2 cache than the FX-6300

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the FX-6300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.