Intel Core i5-8250U vs AMD FX-6100

Compare Intel 8th 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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$ 1527.00

$ 48.02

$ 1478.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1907 points

22% slightly better overall score

1562 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3207 points

23% slightly better gaming score

2587 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1532 points

22% slightly better multitasking score

1252 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1465 points

21% slightly better heavy workload score

1201 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.03 points

40% slightly higher Blender score

27.00 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1971 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1175 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

771 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

375 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

738th of 1,089

795th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-8250U vs FX-6100 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8250U is faster than the FX-6100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-6100 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-8250U has slightly more cores with 4 cores compared to the FX-6100 that has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-6100. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-6100 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8250U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-6100 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8250U. The FX-6100 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i5-8250U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.