AMD FX-6100 vs Intel Pentium G4520

Compare AMD 3 core CPU vs Intel Pentium G Series 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
$ 236.98 significantly less expensive
$ 285.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1562 points
10% slightly better overall score
1414 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2587 points
2950 points
14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1252 points
18% slightly better multitasking score
1061 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1201 points
16% slightly better heavy workload score
1027 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1175 points
1594 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

375 points
838 points
123% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

3
49% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
200% significantly more threads
2

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
100% significantly more L3 cache
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

795th of 1,089
833rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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Yes

FX-6100 vs Pentium G4520 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-6100 beats the Pentium G4520 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium G4520 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the FX-6100 has significantly more cores than the Pentium G4520. Indeed, the FX-6100 has 3 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium G4520. It also has more threads than the Pentium G4520. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium G4520 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-6100. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-6100 has significantly more L2 cache than the Pentium G4520. The FX-6100 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.

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