AMD A6-6400K vs Intel Core i3-4010U

Compare AMD A6-Series APU for Desktops 1 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i3 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i3-4010U

Price

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$ 75.00

$ 1351.00 significantly less expensive

$ 1426.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

811 points

14% slightly better overall score

709 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1725 points

21% slightly better gaming score

1422 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

592 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

524 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

570 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

503 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

11.64 points

12.63 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

728 points

1076 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

452 points

511 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

569 points

1063 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

406 points

522 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz

129% significantly higher clock speed

1.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,001st of 1,089

1,026th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A6-Series APU for Desktops

4th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June

2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A6-6400K vs Core i3-4010U comparison

In our benchmarks, the A6-6400K beats the Core i3-4010U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-4010U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i3-4010U 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. With our hardware info, we find that the A6-6400K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-4010U. The Core i3-4010U 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.