Intel Core i3-6006U vs AMD A6-6400K

Core i3-6006U vs A6-6400K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-6006U beats the A6-6400K in overall performance. Despite this, the A6-6400K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i3-6006U 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A6-6400K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-6006U. A Core i3-6006U CPU outputs less heat than a A6-6400K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-6006U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.