Intel Core i3-6100 vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Core i3-6100 vs Phenom II X4 945 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-6100 is faster than the Phenom II X4 945. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 945 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X4 945 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-6100. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 945 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 Phenom II X4 945. The info from our database shows that the Phenom II X4 945 has more L2 cache than the Core i3-6100. The Phenom II X4 945 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.