Intel Xeon W3580 vs AMD FX-6300

Compare Intel Xeon 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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$ 375.00

$ 50.00

$ 325.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1617 points

1799 points

11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2977 points

2999 points

0.74% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1234 points

1441 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1184 points

1382 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2417 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1489 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

607 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

472 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

3.33 GHz

3.5 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

3.8 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

95 W

36% slightly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

6 MiB

499% 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

785th of 1,089

757th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon W3580 vs FX-6300 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-6300 is faster than the Xeon W3580. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon W3580 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon W3580 has slightly more cores than the FX-6300. Indeed, the Xeon W3580 has 4 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 FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon W3580. In terms of cache, the FX-6300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon W3580. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon W3580 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.