AMD FX-6100 vs Intel Pentium G4560

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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Intel Pentium G4560

Price

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$ 48.02

$ 36.98 significantly less expensive

$ 85.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1562 points

1563 points

0.06% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2587 points

2914 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1252 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

1189 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1201 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

1142 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.00 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

26.56 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1175 points

1455 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

375 points

686 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1240 points

1450 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

387 points

712 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3.5 GHz

6% 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

166% significantly more L3 cache

3 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

795th of 1,089

794th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

FX-6100 vs Pentium G4560 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium G4560 performs better than the FX-6100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-6100 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the FX-6100 has significantly more cores with 3 cores compared to the Pentium G4560 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G4560. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G4560 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-6100. In terms of cache, the FX-6100 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Pentium G4560. 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.