Intel Core i7-6500U vs AMD FX-4100

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 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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$ 1793.00

$ 390.00

$ 1403.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1306 points

4% slightly better overall score

1255 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2566 points

8% slightly better gaming score

2361 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

974 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

952 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

934 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

914 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.12 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

18.53 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1641 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1317 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

719 points

51% significantly 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

2.5 GHz

3.6 GHz

44% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.1 GHz

3.8 GHz

22% 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

870th of 1,089

882nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7

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 i7-6500U vs FX-4100 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-6500U performs better than the FX-4100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4100 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-4100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6500U.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-6500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.