AMD FX-6100 vs Intel Core i5-3470

Compare AMD 3 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-3470

Price

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$ 48.02

$ 169.37 significantly less expensive

$ 217.39

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1562 points

2020 points

29% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2587 points

3714 points

43% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1252 points

1543 points

23% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1201 points

1482 points

23% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.00 points

30.09 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1175 points

1862 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

375 points

620 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1240 points

1843 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

387 points

622 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

795th of 1,089

712th of 1,089

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-6100 vs Core i5-3470 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3470 is faster 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 i5-3470 has slightly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-6100 has 3 cores. Despite this, the FX-6100 has more threads than the Core i5-3470. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-6100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3470.

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-6100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.