Intel Core i3-6006U vs AMD Athlon II X2 245

Core i3-6006U vs Athlon II X2 245 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-6006U beats the Athlon II X2 245 in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon II X2 245 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i3-6006U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X2 245 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-6006U.

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 Core i3-6006U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.