Intel Core i3-6100 vs AMD Phenom II X4 960T

Core i3-6100 vs Phenom II X4 960T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-6100 beats the Phenom II X4 960T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 960T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X4 960T has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-6100 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 Phenom II X4 960T. The info from our database shows that the Phenom II X4 960T has more L2 cache than the Core i3-6100. The Phenom II X4 960T 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.