Intel Core i3-6100U vs AMD FX-6100

Core i3-6100U vs FX-6100 benchmarks

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

With info from our database, we find that the FX-6100 has significantly more cores with 3 cores whereas the Core i3-6100U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-6100U. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-6100 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-6100U.

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 i3-6100U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.