Intel Core i3-6100 vs AMD Phenom II X4 B50

Core i3-6100 vs Phenom II X4 B50 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X4 B50 performs better than the Core i3-6100. Despite this, the Core i3-6100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X4 B50 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 Phenom II X4 B50. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 B50 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-6100. The Phenom II X4 B50 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.