AMD FX-6100 vs Intel Core i3-4370

FX-6100 vs Core i3-4370 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-4370 beats the FX-6100 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-6100 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the FX-6100 has significantly more cores with 3 cores compared to the Core i3-4370 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-4370. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-4370 has a slightly higher clock speed than 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.