AMD FX-8300 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

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

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AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

Price

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$ 98.02

$ 79.04

$ 18.98 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

17% slightly better overall score

1888 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

8% slightly better gaming score

3068 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

22% slightly better multitasking score

1525 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

22% slightly better heavy workload score

1464 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

53% significantly higher Blender score

22.83 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1774 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

415 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

17% slightly higher clock speed

2.8 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

166% significantly more L2 cache

3 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

743rd of 1,089

Family

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FX 8-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 Phenom II X6 1055T specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8300 performs better than the Phenom II X6 1055T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1055T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1055T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the FX-8300 has 4 cores. Despite this, the FX-8300 has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1055T. Our comparison shows that the FX-8300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X6 1055T. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8300 has significantly more L2 cache than the Phenom II X6 1055T. 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.