Intel Core i5-10210U vs AMD FX-6100

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs AMD 3 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD FX-6100

Price

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$ 1639.00

$ 48.02

$ 1590.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2205 points

41% slightly better overall score

1562 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3819 points

47% significantly better gaming score

2587 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1744 points

39% slightly better multitasking score

1252 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1666 points

38% slightly better heavy workload score

1201 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.33 points

34% slightly higher Blender score

27.00 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2911 points

147% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1175 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

948 points

152% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

375 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3069 points

147% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1240 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1196 points

209% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

387 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.6 GHz

3.3 GHz

106% significantly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

6 MiB

499% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

684th of 1,089

795th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-10210U vs FX-6100 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-10210U performs better than the FX-6100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-6100 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-10210U has slightly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-6100 has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-6100. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-6100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10210U. In terms of cache, the FX-6100 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-10210U. The FX-6100 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i5-10210U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.