AMD A6-6400K vs Intel Core i5-3210M

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

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 75.00
$ 39.99
$ 35.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

811 points
1066 points
31% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1725 points
2093 points
21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

592 points
796 points
34% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

570 points
763 points
33% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

11.64 points
16.49 points
41% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

728 points
974 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

452 points
480 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

569 points
993 points
74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

406 points
489 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

1
2
100% 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
56% significantly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz
32% slightly higher turbo speed
3.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
35 W
85% 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
931st of 1,089

Family

The product line

A6-Series APU for Desktops
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June
2012 May

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

-
No

A6-6400K vs Core i5-3210M comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-3210M performs better than the A6-6400K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A6-6400K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-3210M has significantly more cores than the A6-6400K. Indeed, the Core i5-3210M has 2 cores compared to 1 cores found in the A6-6400K. 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 i5-3210M. Also, the A6-6400K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-3210M 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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