AMD FX-4100 vs Intel Core i5-6198DU

Compare AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core CPU vs Intel 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1255 points

2% slightly better overall score

1229 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2361 points

2443 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

952 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

913 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

914 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

876 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.53 points

21.63 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

49% significantly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

0.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

166% significantly more L3 cache

3 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

907th of 1,118

918th of 1,118

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-4100 vs Core i5-6198DU specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-4100 is faster than the Core i5-6198DU. Despite this, the Core i5-6198DU has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-4100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6198DU. In terms of cache, the FX-4100 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-6198DU. The FX-4100 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 FX-4100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.