AMD A6-7400K vs Intel Core i3-4030U

Compare AMD A6-Series APU for Desktops 2 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 i3-4030U

Price

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$ 85.23

$ 1297.77 significantly less expensive

$ 1383.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

762 points

767 points

0.66% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1703 points

20% slightly better gaming score

1414 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

536 points

585 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

513 points

562 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

9.28 points

11.60 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

743 points

1097 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

451 points

534 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

585 points

1177 points

101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

408 points

577 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

84% significantly higher clock speed

1.9 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

1,015th of 1,089

1,012th 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

2014 July

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A6-7400K vs Core i3-4030U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-4030U is faster than the A6-7400K. Despite this, the A6-7400K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i3-4030U has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A6-7400K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-4030U. The Core i3-4030U outputs less heat than A6-7400K 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. For instance, the A6-7400K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.