Intel Core i3-2100 vs AMD Athlon X4 760K

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs AMD 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1270 points
1399 points
10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2433 points
2628 points
8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

956 points
1061 points
10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

918 points
1018 points
10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.20 points
19.35 points
27% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

990 points
1399 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

475 points
502 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

947 points
1117 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

465 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
458 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
3.8 GHz
22% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

878th of 1,089
840th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
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Core i3-2100 vs Athlon X4 760K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-2100 beats the Athlon X4 760K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon X4 760K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon X4 760K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-2100.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-2100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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