AMD FX-8300 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

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 1100T

Price

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$ 98.02

$ 161.97 significantly less expensive

$ 259.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

2277 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

3688 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

1839 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

1764 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

32.04 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

1% slightly higher clock speed

3.26 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

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Ranking in the hardwareDB database

681st of 1,089

668th 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 1100T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8300 is faster than the Phenom II X6 1100T. Despite this, the Phenom II X6 1100T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the FX-8300 that has 4 cores. Despite this, the FX-8300 has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1100T. Our comparison shows that the FX-8300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X6 1100T. In terms of cache, the FX-8300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Phenom II X6 1100T. The FX-8300 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.