Intel Core i3-6100 vs AMD Athlon II X4 635

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs AMD 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 70.65
$ 58.02
$ 12.63 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1570 points
14% slightly better overall score
1373 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3092 points
23% slightly better gaming score
2505 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1169 points
10% slightly better multitasking score
1054 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1123 points
11% slightly better heavy workload score
1011 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2267 points
99% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1135 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1167 points
233% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
350 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2359 points
176% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
854 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1201 points
311% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
292 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
27% slightly higher clock speed
2.9 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
2 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

790th of 1,089
847th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i3
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Core i3-6100 vs Athlon II X4 635 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-6100 beats the Athlon II X4 635 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 635 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X4 635 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-6100. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 635 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-6100. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-6100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X4 635. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 635 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-6100

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.

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