AMD Athlon X4 970 vs AMD FX-6100

AMD Athlon X4 970
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3800 MHz / Cores: 4 / Jul 2017
AMD Athlon X4 970
AMD FX-6100
AMD Socket AM3+DESKTOP
3300 MHz / Cores: 6 / Oct 2011
AMD FX-6100

Summary

Reasons to consider AMD Athlon X4 970

This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.

Reasons to consider AMD FX-6100

None

AMD Athlon X4 970

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Athlon X4 970

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

No winner

Productivity

No clear winner declared



Specifications

Features

AMD Athlon X4 970AMD FX-6100
MMX
3DNow!
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSE4
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
SSE4A
AMD64
AES
AVX
AVX2
BMI1
BMI2
FMA3
FMA4
F16C
TBM
XOP
AMD-V
EVP
Turbo Core
SSSE3
SSE4a
CLMUL
CVT16
HT3.1

Architecture

AMD Athlon X4 970AMD FX-6100
ArchitectureAMD ExcavatorvsAMD Bulldozer
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR3
CodenameBristol RidgevsZambezi
Release DateJul 2017vsOct 2011

Cores

AMD Athlon X4 970AMD FX-6100
Cores4vs6
Threads4vs6
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsNo

Cache

AMD Athlon X4 970AMD FX-6100
L1 Cache128 KB (per core)vs288 KB
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs6144 KB
L3 Cache0 KBvs8192 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Athlon X4 970AMD FX-6100
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsAMD Socket AM3+
Max Case Temp74°Cvsunknown
PackageuPGAvsuPGA
Die Size246mm²vs315mm²
Process28 nmvs32 nm

Performance

AMD Athlon X4 970AMD FX-6100
Cpu Frequency3800 MHzvs3300 MHz
Turbo Clock4000 MHzvs3900 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs200 MHz
Voltage1.475 Vvs1.425 V
TDP65 Wvs95 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon X4 970
    2760 points
  • AMD FX-6100
    2301 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon X4 970
    9124 points
  • AMD FX-6100
    9579 points

Points - higher is better