Comparison of AMD FX-6100 and AMD FX-8150

Attribute	AMD FX-8150 ×	AMD FX-6100 ×
General Information
Brand	AMD	AMD
Series	AMD FX	AMD FX
Model	AMD FX-8150	AMD FX-6100
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	8	6
Frequency (GHz)	3.6	3.3
CPU Threads	8	6
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	+	+
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	4.2	3.9
Turbo (6 Cores) (GHz)	-	3.9
Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz)	4.2	-
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	No	No
h264	No	No
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	No
VP8	No	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	No	No
VP9	No	No
AVC	No	No
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	DDR3-1866	DDR3-1866
ECC	+	+
Memory channels	2	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2011	2011
Technology (Nm)	32	32
Socket	AM3+	AM3+
Virtualization	amd-v	amd-v
L3-Cache (MB)	8	8
Architecture	Zambezi	Zambezi
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	125	95
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	7,720	5,418
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	512	471
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	2,431	1,713
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	-	73
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	-	345
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.14	0.95
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	5.91	4.07
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	2,056	1,858
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	10,660	7,737