CPU-centric results
It's been the case for a while that Intel's single-threaded performance is vastly superior to AMD's, to the tune of 2x in our long-standing PiFast test. A Skylake processor ticking along at 3.7GHz is clearly no slouch.
Yet processors are often tasked to do more, exercising all of the available cores. The four threads of the Core i3-6100 are still enough to beat out the four cores of the A10-7860K, but the results are much closer.
A fact further reinforced with the Cinebench test. Both processors are more than capable for getting everyday work done quickly and smoothly.
And leading a clean sweep of results for the CPU portion, the hard-hitting HandBrake test, where we encode a 4K clip into a tablet-friendly format, runs about 20 per cent faster on the Intel processor.
