AMD Athlon 3000G vs Intel Core i3-6100

AMD Athlon 3000G
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3500 MHz / Cores: 2 / Nov 2019
AMD Athlon 3000G
Intel Core i3-6100
Intel Socket 1151DESKTOP
3700 MHz / Cores: 2 / Sep 2015
Intel Core i3-6100

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Athlon 3000G
    106%
  • Intel Core i3-6100
    100%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon 3000G
    100%
  • Intel Core i3-6100
    111%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon 3000G
    124%
  • Intel Core i3-6100
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Athlon 3000G

Much higher multi threaded performance (around 24% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).

Reasons to consider Intel Core i3-6100

11% higher single threaded performance.

No winner

Gaming

No clear winner declared


AMD Athlon 3000G

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD Athlon 3000G

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

AMD Athlon 3000GIntel Core i3-6100
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4A
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
AES
AVX
AVX2
BMI1
BMI2
SHA
F16C
FMA3
AMD64
EVP
AMD-V
SMAP
SMEP
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
Hyper-Threading
AES-NI
TSX
CLMUL

Architecture

AMD Athlon 3000GIntel Core i3-6100
ArchitectureAMD ZenvsIntel_Skylake
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4 Dual-channelvsDDR3, DDR4
CodenameZenvsSkylake
Release DateNov 2019vsSep 2015

Cores

AMD Athlon 3000GIntel Core i3-6100
Cores2vs2
Threads4vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon Vega 3vsIntel HD 530

Cache

AMD Athlon 3000GIntel Core i3-6100
L1 Cache96K (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512K (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache4MB (shared)vs4096 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Athlon 3000GIntel Core i3-6100
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel Socket 1151
Max Case TempN/Avs65°C
PackageµPGAvs
Die Size148mm²vs150mm²
Process14 nmvs14 nm

Performance

AMD Athlon 3000GIntel Core i3-6100
Cpu Frequency3500 MHzvs3700 MHz
Turbo Clocknonevsnone
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
VoltageN/Avsunknown
TDP35 Wvs51 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon 3000G
    3850 points
  • Intel Core i3-6100
    4255 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon 3000G
    9394 points
  • Intel Core i3-6100
    10297 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Athlon 3000G (simulated)
    138.21
  • Intel Core i3-6100
    154

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Athlon 3000G (simulated)
    398.61
  • Intel Core i3-6100
    321

points - higher is better