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AMD FX 6300 Cpu
AMD FX 6300
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Intel Core i3 8350K Cpu
Intel Core i3 8350K
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AMD is refreshing its desktop processors with Piledriver, an enhanced version of Bulldozer that focuses on improving instructions per clock and frequency -- just like it did...Read more
With several new product releases over the last few weeks, AMD has been on a mission to gain back market share. While Trinity targeted the entry level crowd with a well rounded family of APUs, their Vishera FX-series firmly targets an enthusiast niche that doesn’t need or want onboard graphics...Read more
Six Piledriver cores at 5GHz? Don't mind if I doRead more
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Firstly, it is unlocked, and secondly. It's good that you can overclock it, but that's unquestionably a lot of money for a chip that most of us would perceive as being a budget offering.Read more
For $180 the Core i3-8350K is nearly a rebadged Core i5-7600K: both are 14nm quad-cores operating at ~4GHz, but the 8350K is 25% cheaper. Meanwhile, the Core...Read more
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General

Processor socketAM3+AM4AM4LGA 1151
Component forPCPCPCPC
Operating modes
  • 32-bit
  • 64-bit
64-bit64-bit64-bit

Processor

Clock speed3.5 GHz3.6 GHz3.0 GHz4.0 GHz
Max turbo speed3.8 GHz4.0 GHz3.7 GHz
N/A
Number of cores6684
Number of threads612164
Thermal Design Power (TDP)95.0 W95.0 W65.0 W91.0 W
Processor lithography0.0 in0.0 in0.0 in0.0 in
Bus type
N/A
N/A
N/A
DMI3
Idle states
N/A
N/A
N/A
yes

Memory

Cache8 MB16 MB16 MB8 MB
Cache typeL3L3L3Smart Cache
Memory clock speeds supported by processor1866.0 MHz2667.0 MHz2667.0 MHz2400.0 MHz
Memory types supported by processorDDR3 SDRAMDDR4 SDRAMDDR4 SDRAMDDR4 SDRAM
Memory channels
N/A
DualDualDual
Maximum internal memory supported by processor
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N/A
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64.0 GB
Memory bandwidth supported by processor (max)
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N/A
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37.5 GB/s

Thermals

Cooler includedyesnoyesno
Thermal specification158.9 °F203.0 °F
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212.0 °F

Often compared with AMD FX 6300

Often compared with AMD Ryzen 5 1600X

Often compared with AMD Ryzen 7 1700

Often compared with Intel Core i3 8350K