AMD A6-6400K vs Intel Core i5-4690K

A6-6400K vs Core i5-4690K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-4690K beats the A6-6400K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A6-6400K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-4690K has significantly more cores with 4 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 slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4690K. Also, the A6-6400K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A A6-6400K CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-4690K CPU because of its slightly 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.