Intel Core i3-6100 vs AMD Athlon II X4 651

Core i3-6100 vs Athlon II X4 651 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-6100 is faster than the Athlon II X4 651. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 651 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Athlon II X4 651 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-6100 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-6100 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon II X4 651. The info from our database shows that the Athlon II X4 651 has more L2 cache than 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.