AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs AMD FX-6300

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 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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AMD FX-6300

Price

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$ 79.99

$ 50.00

$ 29.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3338 points

85% significantly better overall score

1799 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points

72% significantly better gaming score

2999 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points

92% significantly better multitasking score

1441 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points

93% significantly better heavy workload score

1382 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3720 points

77% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

2098 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points

123% significantly higher Blender score

28.92 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3735 points

150% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1489 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1114 points

136% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

472 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points

158% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1426 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points

144% significantly 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

3.5 GHz

Identical

3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

3.8 GHz

2% 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

16 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th of 1,089

757th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 1500X vs FX-6300 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 1500X performs better than the FX-6300. 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 Ryzen 5 1500X has slightly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-6300 has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-6300. Both the Ryzen 5 1500X and FX-6300 have the same clock speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-6300 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1500X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-6300.

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 Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.