AMD A6-6400K vs Intel Core i3-3217U

A6-6400K vs Core i3-3217U comparison

In our benchmarks, the A6-6400K beats the Core i3-3217U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-3217U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i3-3217U has significantly more cores with 2 cores compared to the A6-6400K that has 1 cores. It also has more threads than the A6-6400K. Our comparison shows that the A6-6400K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-3217U. The Core i3-3217U 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the A6-6400K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.