Comparison of AMD FX-6100 and AMD Phenom II X4 975

Attribute	AMD FX-6100 ×	AMD Phenom II X4 975 ×
General Information
Brand	AMD	AMD
Series	AMD FX	AMD Phenom II
Model	AMD FX-6100	AMD Phenom II X4 975
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	6	4
Frequency (GHz)	3.3	3.6
CPU Threads	6	4
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	+	+
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	3.9	-
Turbo (6 Cores) (GHz)	3.9	-
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	DDR2-1066
ECC	+	-
Memory channels	2	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2011	2011
Technology (Nm)	32	-
Socket	AM3+	AM3
Virtualization	amd-v	amd-rvi amd-v
L3-Cache (MB)	8	6
Architecture	Zambezi	Deneb
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	95	125
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	5,418	4,631
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	471	478
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	1,713	1,587
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	73	94
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	345	362
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	0.95	1.09
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	4.07	4.23
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	1,858	1,876
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	7,737	6,704