AMD A6-6400K vs Intel Celeron N3450

Compare AMD A6-Series APU for Desktops 1 core CPU vs Intel Celeron N Series 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

811 points
28% slightly better overall score
630 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1725 points
44% significantly better gaming score
1191 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

592 points
23% slightly better multitasking score
481 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

570 points
22% slightly better heavy workload score
466 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

11.64 points
109% significantly higher Blender score
5.56 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

728 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
584 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

452 points
104% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
221 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

569 points
676 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

406 points
68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
241 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

1
4
300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz
254% significantly higher clock speed
1.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
6 W
983% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,001st of 1,089
1,052nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

A6-Series APU for Desktops
Celeron N Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June
2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR3-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

A6-6400K vs Celeron N3450 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A6-6400K is faster than the Celeron N3450. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron N3450 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Celeron N3450 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A6-6400K has 1 cores. It also has more threads than the A6-6400K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A6-6400K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron N3450. The Celeron N3450 outputs less heat than A6-6400K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the A6-6400K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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