AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs AMD FX-6300

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 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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$ 224.25

$ 50.00

$ 174.25 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6410 points

256% significantly better overall score

1799 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8714 points

190% significantly better gaming score

2999 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5668 points

293% significantly better multitasking score

1441 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5487 points

297% significantly better heavy workload score

1382 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5675 points

170% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

2098 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points

436% significantly higher Blender score

28.92 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8541 points

473% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1489 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2046 points

333% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

472 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points

507% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1426 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points

364% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

454 points

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

3.7 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

21% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

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

3 MiB

6 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

300% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th 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

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 5600X vs FX-6300 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600X 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 5 5600X has significantly more cores than the FX-6300. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600X has 6 cores compared to 3 cores found in the FX-6300. It also has more threads than the FX-6300. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-6300. In terms of cache, the FX-6300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600X 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 5600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.