AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Xeon X5687

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Price

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$ 50.00
$ 139.95 significantly less expensive
$ 189.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1800 points
1892 points
5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3003 points
3477 points
15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points
1446 points
0.35% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1383 points
1388 points
0.36% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points
42.49 points
46% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

3
4
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
49% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
3.59 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
3.86 GHz
1% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
36% slightly lower TDP
130 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
499% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
12 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

764th of 1,099
747th of 1,099

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2011 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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