Intel Core i3-6006U vs AMD A8-5550M

Core i3-6006U vs A8-5550M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-5550M is faster than the Core i3-6006U. Despite this, the Core i3-6006U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the A8-5550M has significantly more cores than the Core i3-6006U. Indeed, the A8-5550M has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-6006U. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A8-5550M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-6006U. A Core i3-6006U CPU outputs less heat than a A8-5550M 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.