Intel Core i3-6006U vs AMD A8-5545M

Core i3-6006U vs A8-5545M comparison

In our benchmarks, the A8-5545M beats the Core i3-6006U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-6006U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the A8-5545M has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-6006U that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. A Core i3-6006U CPU outputs less heat than a A8-5545M CPU because of its slightly 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 Core i3-6006U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.