AMD FX-6100 vs Intel Core i3-4150

FX-6100 vs Core i3-4150 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-6100 beats the Core i3-4150 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-4150 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the FX-6100 has significantly more cores with 3 cores compared to the Core i3-4150 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-4150. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-4150 has a slightly higher clock speed 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 FX-6100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.