AMD FX-6100 vs Intel Core i7-4600M

Compare AMD 3 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 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

1562 points
12% slightly better overall score
1394 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2587 points
2774 points
7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1252 points
21% slightly better multitasking score
1034 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1201 points
21% slightly better heavy workload score
992 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.00 points
30.90 points
14% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1175 points
1735 points
47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

375 points
961 points
156% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1240 points
1926 points
55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

387 points
1013 points
161% 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
13% slightly higher clock speed
2.9 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

795th of 1,089
841st of 1,089

Family

The product line

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4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2013 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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No

FX-6100 vs Core i7-4600M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-6100 is faster than the Core i7-4600M. Despite this, the Core i7-4600M 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 i7-4600M that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4600M. Our comparison shows that the FX-6100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4600M.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the FX-6100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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