AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Pentium Gold G6405

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Pentium Gold G6405

Price

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$ 98.02

$ 89.75

$ 8.27 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

23% slightly better overall score

1785 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

3540 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

40% slightly better multitasking score

1329 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

40% slightly better heavy workload score

1277 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

32.22 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

0.29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1714 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

842 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% 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

4.1 GHz

24% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

58 W

63% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

681st of 1,089

760th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-8300 vs Pentium Gold G6405 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-8300 beats the Pentium Gold G6405 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium Gold G6405 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the FX-8300 has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold G6405. Indeed, the FX-8300 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium Gold G6405. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G6405. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium Gold G6405 has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-8300.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the FX-8300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.