Intel Core i3-6100 vs AMD Athlon Gold 3150U

Core i3-6100 vs Athlon Gold 3150U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Athlon Gold 3150U beats the Core i3-6100 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-6100 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-6100 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Athlon Gold 3150U. The Athlon Gold 3150U outputs less heat than Core i3-6100 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon Gold 3150U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-6100. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 i3-6100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.