Intel Core i3-6100 vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

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
$ 48.02
$ 22.63 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1570 points
7% slightly better overall score
1463 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3092 points
13% slightly better gaming score
2727 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1169 points
5% slightly better multitasking score
1106 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1123 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score
1058 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.35 points
93% significantly higher Blender score
15.73 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2267 points
140% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
943 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1167 points
278% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
308 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2359 points
148% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
948 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1201 points
283% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
313 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
23% slightly higher clock speed
3 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
819th 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 640 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-6100 performs better than the Athlon II X4 640. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 640 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-6100. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 640 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-6100. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-6100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X4 640. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-6100

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-6100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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