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AMD A6-5400K vs AMD FX-6300

Last updated: 2026-05-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 78 %

AMD A6-5400K

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD FX-6300

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 40 %

AMD A6-5400K

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD FX-6300

Cinebench R20 Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 2T · 3.80 GHz

174 cb

6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz

195 cb

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 2T · 3.80 GHz

415

6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz

529

Cinebench R20 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 2T · 3.80 GHz

275 cb

6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz

854 cb

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 2T · 3.80 GHz

629

6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz

1,916

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 2T · 3.60 GHz

338

6C / 6T · 3.50 GHz

1,003

More benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	AMD A6-5400K	AMD FX-6300
Family	AMD A (112)	AMD FX (30)
CPU group	AMD A6-5000 (3)	AMD FX-6300 (2)
Architecture	Kabini (Jaguar)	Vishera (Bulldozer)
Technology	28 nm	32 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket	FM2	AM3+
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD A6-5400K	AMD FX-6300
CPU Cores / Threads	2 / 2	6 / 6
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	2x	6x
Frequency:	3.60 GHz	3.50 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	3.80 GHz	4.10 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	3.80 GHz	4.10 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	1.00 MB	8.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	AMD A6-5400K	AMD FX-6300
GPU name	AMD Radeon HD 7540D	no iGPU
GPU frequency	0.64 GHz
CUs / Shader	3 / 192	/
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB
Technology	32 nm
Release date	Q2/2012

NPU AI performance

Wischen	AMD A6-5400K	AMD FX-6300
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD A6-5400K	AMD FX-6300
Memory	DDR3-1866 (29.9 GB/s)	DDR3-1866 (29.9 GB/s)
Max. Memory		32 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		3.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	AMD A6-5400K	AMD FX-6300
TDP	65 W	95 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		71 °C

Technical details

Wischen	AMD A6-5400K	AMD FX-6300
Chip design	Unknown	Unknown
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems		Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4
Release date	Q3/2012	Q4/2012
Release price	45 $	95 $
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User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of AMD A6-5400K is 1.0 stars (6 ratings), while AMD FX-6300 has received 4.2 stars (64 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

AMD A6-5400K
2C / 2T · 3.60 - 3.80 GHz

★★★★★

AMD FX-6300
6C / 6T · 3.50 - 4.10 GHz

★★★★★