i3-6100E vs Athlon X2 QL-66

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Primary details

Comparing Athlon X2 QL-66 and Core i3-6100E processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated1879
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data0.18
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Series2x AMD AthlonIntel Core i3
Power efficiencyno data5.65
Architecture codenameLion (2008−2009)Skylake (2015−2016)
Release date1 September 2009 (15 years ago)12 October 2015 (9 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$225

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Athlon X2 QL-66 and Core i3-6100E basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores2 (Dual-core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads24
Boost clock speed2.2 GHz2.7 GHz
Bus typeno dataDMI 3.0
Bus rate3600 MHz4 × 8 GT/s
Multiplierno data27
L1 cache256 KB128 KB
L2 cache1 MB512 KB
L3 cacheno data3 MB
Chip lithography65 nm14 nm
Die sizeno data98.57 mm2
Maximum core temperature100 °Cno data
Number of transistorsno data1750 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Athlon X2 QL-66 and Core i3-6100E compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configurationno data1 (Uniprocessor)
SocketS1g2no data
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon X2 QL-66 and Core i3-6100E. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD Virtualizationno data
AES-NI-+
AVX-+
PowerNow+-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
TSX-+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon X2 QL-66 and Core i3-6100E are enumerated here.

VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon X2 QL-66 and Core i3-6100E. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataLPDDR3-1866
Maximum memory sizeno data64 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data34.134 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataIntel HD Graphics 530

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon X2 QL-66 and Core i3-6100E.

PCIe versionno data3.0
PCI Express lanesno data16

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.



Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Athlon X2 QL-66 641
i3-6100E 3315
+417%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2009 12 October 2015
Threads 2 4
Chip lithography 65 nm 14 nm

i3-6100E has an age advantage of 6 years, 100% more threads, and a 364.3% more advanced lithography process.

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