Intel Core i5-7200U vs AMD FX-6100

Core i5-7200U vs FX-6100 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-6100 is faster than the Core i5-7200U. Despite this, the Core i5-7200U 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 i5-7200U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7200U. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-6100 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-7200U.

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 i5-7200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.