Intel Core i5-6200U vs AMD FX-6100

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 2 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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$ 1448.00

$ 48.02

$ 1399.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1045 points

1562 points

49% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2029 points

2587 points

27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

783 points

1252 points

59% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

751 points

1201 points

59% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.78 points

27.00 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1333 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1175 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

558 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

375 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

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

935th of 1,089

795th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-6200U vs FX-6100 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-6100 performs better than the Core i5-6200U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6200U 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 i5-6200U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6200U. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-6100 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-6200U.

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 i5-6200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.