Intel Core i3-6100 vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

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Price

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$ 70.65
$ 59.01
$ 11.64 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1576 points
1654 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3100 points
2% slightly better gaming score
3032 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1174 points
1265 points
7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1128 points
1214 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.35 points
60% significantly higher Blender score
18.93 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
Identical
3.7 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
Identical
0.5 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

792nd of 1,092
783rd of 1,092

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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