Intel Core i5-6300U vs AMD FX-4100

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 2 core CPU vs AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD FX-4100

Price

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$ 2171.00

$ 390.00

$ 1781.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1069 points

1255 points

17% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2091 points

2361 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

801 points

952 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

769 points

914 points

18% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.45 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

18.53 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1313 points

1317 points

0.30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

587 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

474 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

3.6 GHz

49% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3 GHz

3.8 GHz

26% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

929th of 1,089

882nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-6300U vs FX-4100 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-4100 beats the Core i5-6300U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6300U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-4100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6300U.

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 i5-6300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.