Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (Broadcom BCM2837B0) vs AMD FX-6100. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Broadcom BCM AMD FX
• Generation
  3 1
• CPU group
  Broadcom BCM2837B0 AMD FX-6100/6200

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  1.40 GHz 3.30 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 6
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 3.90 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 6
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  Yes Yes
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• A core
  4x Cortex-A53 --

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  Broadcom VideoCore 5 no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  0.40 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  2
• Shader
  24
• Max. GPU Memory
  1 GB --
• Max. displays
  2
• Generation
  5
• Technology
  40 nm
• Release date
  02/2016

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  Decode / Encode No
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  Decode No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD FX-6100 and Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (Broadcom BCM2837B0). Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR2 DDR3-1866
• Max. Memory
  1024 GB
• ECC
  No Yes
• Memory channels
  1 2

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (Broadcom BCM2837B0) and AMD FX-6100 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  7 W 95 W
• TDP down
  4 W --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (Broadcom BCM2837B0) and Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (Broadcom BCM2837B0), virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None AMD-V
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
• L2-Cache
  0.50 MB --
• L3-Cache
  -- 8.00 MB
• Architecture
  Cortex-A15 Zambezi (Bulldozer)
• Technology
  40 nm 32 nm
• Socket
  N/A AM3+
• Release date
  02/2016 Q4/2011