Intel Core i7-6500U vs AMD FX-6100

Core i7-6500U vs FX-6100 comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-6100 beats the Core i7-6500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6500U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the FX-6100 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6500U. Indeed, the FX-6100 has 3 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-6500U. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6500U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-6100 has a slightly 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.