Intel Core i9-9900K vs AMD FX-6100

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i9 8 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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$ 350.22

$ 48.02

$ 302.20 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6740 points

331% significantly better overall score

1562 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8249 points

218% significantly better gaming score

2587 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6233 points

397% significantly better multitasking score

1252 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6091 points

407% significantly better heavy workload score

1201 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

175.64 points

550% significantly higher Blender score

27.00 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7957 points

577% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1175 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1634 points

335% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

375 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8053 points

549% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1240 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1703 points

340% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

387 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

166% significantly more threads

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

2 MiB

6 MiB

200% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

223rd of 1,127

820th of 1,127

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 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 i9-9900K vs FX-6100 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-9900K performs better than the FX-6100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-6100 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-9900K has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the FX-6100 has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-6100. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-6100. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-6100 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900K. Despite this, the Core i9-9900K has significantly 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. Indeed, the Core i9-9900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.