Q6600 vs FX6300 Clock for Clock?

[jjblanche]

Before anyone yells at me I'm not actually deciding between the two 😀 I had a Q6600 in my old rig and now have an FX6300 in my new one. Just curious on a clock for clock basis how they perform, if anyone knows. For example, if you had a Q6600 at 3.0 and an FX6300 at 3.0 how would they run side by side? The FX6300 will most likely perform better in highly threaded apps regardless, but for the sake of argument...

Curious how much real world performance separates these two when they're compared at the same frequency vs stock clocks.

 

[RCFProd]

FX-6300 any day of the week mate

 

[photonboy]

If we ignore the extra two cores in the FX-6300 and just look at SINGLE core then:

Q6600 single core: 923
FX-6300 single core: 1409

Overclocking would be proportional.

Real-world performance would vary depending on the game, settings, GPU etc.

HANDBRAKE should be really scalable so the TOTAL performance can be compared:

6345 vs
2988

Summary:
So in Handbrake you should see conversion times over TWICE as fast depending on settings, and in games as said it varies but you might see anywhere between MINOR right up to over TWICE the performance.

So it's going to be quite a difference but those are the raw values.

 

[jjblanche]

Excellent, thanks photon. Looking at some published benchmarks the margins seemed slimmer. UPS destroyed my Q6600 rig...kinda glad they did.

Moving up from a paltry "stock plus" Rosewill cooler on the FX6300 (@4GHz) to a Hyper 212 in anticipation of Doom. Curious how far I can push it....had the Q6600 at a reliable and cool 3.6 which was fairly impressive on air in its day. Was a good chip. Bro just got the K6600 so we'll see how that stacks up.