Intel Core i3-6100 vs AMD FX-8350

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD FX-8350

Price

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$ 70.65

$ 94.34 significantly less expensive

$ 164.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1570 points

2626 points

67% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3092 points

3873 points

25% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1169 points

2226 points

90% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1123 points

2136 points

90% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2255 points

68% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

1338 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.35 points

46.35 points

52% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2267 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2027 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1167 points

136% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

493 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2359 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1989 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1201 points

146% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

488 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

4 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

51 W

145% significantly lower TDP

125 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

128 KiB

384 KiB

200% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB

8 MiB

1500% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

8 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

790th of 1,089

605th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i3

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

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 FX-8350 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8350 is faster than the Core i3-6100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-6100 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the FX-8350 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-6100. Indeed, the FX-8350 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-6100. It also has more threads than the Core i3-6100. Our comparison shows that the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-6100. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8350 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-6100. The FX-8350 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.