Intel Core i3-7020U vs AMD FX-6100

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs AMD 3 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 1126.00
$ 48.02
$ 1077.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

999 points
1562 points
56% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1994 points
2587 points
29% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

740 points
1252 points
69% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

710 points
1201 points
69% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.70 points
27.00 points
44% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1475 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1175 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

726 points
93% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
375 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1491 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1240 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

734 points
89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
387 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
3
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz
3.3 GHz
43% significantly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

948th of 1,089
795th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i3
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i3-7020U vs FX-6100 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-6100 is faster than the Core i3-7020U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-7020U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the FX-6100 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-7020U. Indeed, the FX-6100 has 3 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-7020U. It also has more threads than the Core i3-7020U. Our comparison shows that the FX-6100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-7020U.

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 i3-7020U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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