Intel Core i5-6300U vs AMD FX-6100

Core i5-6300U vs FX-6100 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-6100 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the FX-6100 has significantly more cores with 3 cores compared to the Core i5-6300U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6300U. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-6100 has a slightly higher clock speed than 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.