Intel Core i5-8600K vs AMD FX-6100

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 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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$ 120.99

$ 48.02

$ 72.97 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4307 points

175% significantly better overall score

1562 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6905 points

166% significantly better gaming score

2587 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3493 points

178% significantly better multitasking score

1252 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3351 points

179% significantly better heavy workload score

1201 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

89.16 points

230% significantly higher Blender score

27.00 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5426 points

361% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1175 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1483 points

295% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

375 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5747 points

363% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1240 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1581 points

308% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

387 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

6 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

9 MiB

12% slightly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

408th 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 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-8600K vs FX-6100 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8600K 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 i5-8600K has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the FX-6100 that has 3 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-8600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-6100. The info from our database shows that the FX-6100 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8600K. Despite this, the Core i5-8600K has slightly more L3 cache compared to the FX-6100.

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. For instance, the Core i5-8600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.