Intel Core i7-6600U 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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$ 2749.00

$ 390.00

$ 2359.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1166 points

1255 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2340 points

2361 points

0.90% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

858 points

952 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

820 points

914 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23.09 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

18.53 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

2.6 GHz

3.6 GHz

38% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

3.8 GHz

11% 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

908th 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 i7-6600U vs FX-4100 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6600U is faster 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. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-4100 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6600U.

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 i7-6600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.