AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Core i5-6500TE

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

8% slightly better overall score

2031 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

3776 points

13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

20% slightly better multitasking score

1545 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

1483 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points

2515 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

783 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

2800 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

1078 points

134% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

43% significantly higher clock speed

2.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

27% slightly higher turbo speed

3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

35 W

171% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

681st of 1,089

711th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

6th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-8300 vs Core i5-6500TE comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-8300 beats the Core i5-6500TE in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-6500TE has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the FX-8300 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-8300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6500TE. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8300 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-6500TE. The FX-8300 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.