AMD FX-8300 vs AMD FX-6300

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 3 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD FX-6300

Price

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$ 98.02

$ 50.00

$ 48.02 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

22% slightly better overall score

1799 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

10% slightly better gaming score

2999 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

29% slightly better multitasking score

1441 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

29% slightly better heavy workload score

1382 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

28.92 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1489 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

472 points

0.43% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1426 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

454 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3.5 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

288 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

6 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

681st of 1,089

757th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-8300 vs FX-6300 comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-8300 beats the FX-6300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-6300 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the FX-8300 has slightly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-6300 has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-6300. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-8300. Despite this, the FX-8300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the FX-8300 has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the FX-6300. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.