AMD Ryzen 3 1200 vs AMD FX-6300

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 79.99
$ 50.00
$ 29.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2292 points
27% slightly better overall score
1799 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4208 points
40% slightly better gaming score
2999 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1753 points
21% slightly better multitasking score
1441 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1683 points
21% slightly better heavy workload score
1382 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2718 points
29% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
2098 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.96 points
41% slightly higher Blender score
28.92 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2796 points
87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1489 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

941 points
99% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
472 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2849 points
99% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1426 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

996 points
119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
454 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
33% slightly more cores
3

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
3.5 GHz
12% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
3.8 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
46% significantly lower TDP
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

2 MiB
6 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
Identical
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

661st of 1,089
757th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop
FX 6-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Ryzen 3 1200 vs FX-6300 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 1200 beats the FX-6300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-6300 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 3 1200 has slightly more cores than the FX-6300. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 1200 has 4 cores compared to 3 cores found in the FX-6300. Despite this, the FX-6300 has more threads than the Ryzen 3 1200. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 1200. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-6300 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 1200. 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. For instance, the Ryzen 3 1200 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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