Intel Core i3-6100 vs AMD A10-6800K

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs AMD A10-Series APU for Desktops 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD A10-6800K

Price

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$ 70.65

$ 396.39 significantly less expensive

$ 467.04

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1570 points

0.71% slightly better overall score

1559 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3092 points

6% slightly better gaming score

2915 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1169 points

1183 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1123 points

1134 points

0.98% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.35 points

128% significantly higher Blender score

13.26 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2267 points

99% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1136 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1167 points

143% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

479 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2359 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1139 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1201 points

151% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

477 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

4.1 GHz

10% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

51 W

96% significantly lower TDP

100 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

128 KiB

192 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB

4 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

790th of 1,089

797th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i3

A10-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2013 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i3-6100 vs A10-6800K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-6100 performs better than the A10-6800K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-6800K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A10-6800K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-6100. A Core i3-6100 CPU outputs less heat than a A10-6800K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the A10-6800K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-6100

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-6100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.