AMD FX-6100 vs Intel Core i3-6098P

Compare AMD 3 core CPU vs Intel 6th Generation Core i3 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 48.02
$ 10.98 slightly less expensive
$ 59.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1562 points
1620 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2587 points
2943 points
13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1252 points
0.81% slightly better multitasking score
1242 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1201 points
0.84% slightly better heavy workload score
1191 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1240 points
2156 points
73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

387 points
1094 points
182% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

3
49% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
49% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
3.6 GHz
9% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
1100% 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

795th of 1,089
784th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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6th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2015 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR4-1866

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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Yes

FX-6100 vs Core i3-6098P comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-6098P performs better than the FX-6100. 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 i3-6098P that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-6098P. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-6098P has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-6100. The info from our database shows that the FX-6100 has more L2 cache than the Core i3-6098P. The FX-6100 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.

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