Intel Core i3-6157U vs AMD FX-6100

Core i3-6157U vs FX-6100 comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-6100 beats the Core i3-6157U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-6157U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the FX-6100 has significantly more cores with 3 cores compared to the Core i3-6157U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-6157U. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-6100 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-6157U.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-6157U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.