AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Xeon X5687

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 X5687

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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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

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

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

772nd of 1,111

753rd of 1,111

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 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 X5687 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon X5687 is faster than the FX-6300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-6300 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon X5687 has slightly more cores with 4 cores compared to the FX-6300 that has 3 cores. Despite this, the FX-6300 has more threads than the Xeon X5687. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon X5687 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-6300. Also, the Xeon X5687 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A FX-6300 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5687 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 FX-6300 has more L2 cache than the Xeon X5687. Despite this, the Xeon X5687 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-6300.

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.