AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Core i5-12600K

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-12600K

Price

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$ 98.02

$ 86.44 significantly less expensive

$ 184.46

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

9422 points

326% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

12057 points

263% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

8581 points

359% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

8381 points

367% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

233.94 points

566% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points

11486 points

538% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

2357 points

401% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

11863 points

590% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

2478 points

439% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3.7 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.9 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

57% significantly lower TDP

150 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

800 KiB

108% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

20 MiB

150% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

681st of 1,089

102nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

FX-8300 vs Core i5-12600K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12600K beats the FX-8300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8300 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12600K has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the FX-8300 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-8300. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-12600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-8300.

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-8300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.