i5- 4460 vs FX 6300

[Foolish Munkey]

I currently have a fx-6300 with a r9 280. Thought my CPU was holding back my GPU. So I overclocked it a bit and got as far as 4.2 Ghz . I saw some boost in performance from the GPU, but nothing awesome plus some overclock would give me the blue screen. I was searching the web and discovered the CPU I have is actually 3 cores and uses 'logical' cores to boast a six core name. I've been looking for an alternative to help with performance and was running out of options. The 8350 seems like a good choice, but people said I'll run into the same problems with bottle necking and not being a 'true' 8 core processor. Others recommend the i5-4460 because its a true quad core and is better for gaming. I currently have enough money to replace my CPU and Mobo, but I wanted to ask you guys

TL;DR - Should I get an i5-4460 for gaming to replace my fx-6300 or should I just overclock and chill?

Current Specs:
CPU- fx-6300
Mobo- GA-970A-DS3P
Ram - Crucial Ballistix - 2 x 4 Gigabyte Ram Sticks
PSU - XFX 850
HDD - Western Digital 1 TB
GPU - XFX R9 280
OS - WIndows 10

 

[KieranPCGamer]

I would get the i5 4460, with intel there are alot more upgrades you can do but with the AM3+ you can only go to fx 8350 and the i5 is much better for gaming imo,

 

[whassup]

By upgrading to a faster CPU, the performance gain out of R9 280 wont be big but some badly optimized low CPU threaded games may show some boost in performance. I think instead of going with a CPU upgrade now, better wait for next generation CPU and GPU that arrive on 2016 and do a complete system upgrade instead.

 

[Zachary_3]

There isn't really a comparison on which is better from a gaming perspective, Intel wins. You can google the benchmarks and FPS comparisons. Remember though you are going to need a new MOBO if you decide to switch to Intel, so plan for a extra $100 or so for switching to Intel.

Fallout benchmarks (because Fallout is awesome!): http://www.gamersnexus.net/game-bench/2182-fallout-4-cpu-benchmark-huge-performance-difference

 

[InvalidError]

I was searching the web and discovered the CPU I have is actually 3 cores and uses 'logical' cores to boast a six core name.

The FX6xxx has six cores: six independent instruction schedulers and six sets of independent integer ALUs. They do share the FPU, L2 cache and instruction decoder though. Nothing logical about these cores, the bulk of execution logic and other essential execution resources are duplicated for each one of them and that's what is called Chip Multi-Threading. Some people refuse to accept a CPU core with some shared resources counting as two cores but that does not change the fact that the CPU does have two mostly independent cores per module even if the shared resources may become bottlenecks.

Intel's HyperThreading on the other hand uses the same instruction decoders, scheduler, execution pipeline, caches, register files, etc. for all the hardware threads managed by a core. That's called Simultaneous Multi-Threading.

 

[Xtergo]

Gowing intel is completely worthit why not spend a bit more and get 4790K ? you have more options to upgrade gpu in the future where the 6300 starts to botteleneck after cards stronget than the r9 380 and the R9 960 with intel i5 you could go upto 980ti and no problems. another advice is to wait for Amd Zen arch but if it too much time to wait get an i5 now without worrying about anything.

 

[NerdyComputerGuy]

There isn't a large discussion here,

The i5 4460 will perform a lot better in games than the FX6300 while the FX6300 will perform somewhat less in games but better in video / photo edition software's of which utilize it's six cores.

The 6300 is fine although when we look at it, the 8350 is equivalent to an i5 and this is AMD's highest priced CPU so we can see a real gap in terms of performance although video editing and photo editing is excelled when using AMD, I would opt for the Intel because you get that good performance and you also get a high level of performance in editing software's without pulling out on the gaming performance.