AMD FX-6100 vs Intel Core i7-920

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 i7-920

Price

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$ 48.02

$ 51.93 significantly less expensive

$ 99.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1562 points

5% slightly better overall score

1474 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2587 points

3% slightly better gaming score

2489 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1252 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

1179 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1201 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

1132 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.00 points

31.28 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1175 points

1489 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

375 points

419 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1240 points

1431 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

387 points

415 points

7% 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

18% slightly higher clock speed

2.79 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

8 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

795th of 1,089

814th of 1,089

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 November

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 i7-920 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-6100 performs better than the Core i7-920. Despite this, the Core i7-920 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-920 has slightly more cores with 4 cores compared to the FX-6100 that has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-6100. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-6100 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-920. In terms of cache, the Core i7-920 has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the FX-6100

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.