AMD FX-6100 vs Intel Core i7-860

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 i7-860

Price

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$ 48.02

$ 6.23 slightly less expensive

$ 54.25

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1562 points

1632 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2587 points

2607 points

0.77% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1252 points

1342 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1201 points

1289 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.00 points

30.74 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1175 points

1475 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

375 points

441 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1240 points

1475 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

387 points

451 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

17% slightly higher clock speed

2.8 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

795th of 1,089

783rd of 1,089

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-6100 vs Core i7-860 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-6100 performs better than the Core i7-860. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-860 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-860 has slightly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-6100 has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-6100. Our comparison shows that the FX-6100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-860.

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.