Intel Core i3-8145U vs AMD FX-6100

Core i3-8145U vs FX-6100 comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-6100 beats the Core i3-8145U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-8145U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the FX-6100 has significantly more cores with 3 cores compared to the Core i3-8145U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-8145U. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-6100 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-8145U. In terms of cache, the FX-6100 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-8145U. The FX-6100 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 i3-8145U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.