Intel Core i3-6006U vs Intel Core i3-4000M

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i3 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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Price

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$ 1249.00
$ 58.11
$ 1190.89 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

809 points
915 points
13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1584 points
1829 points
15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

605 points
674 points
11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

581 points
646 points
11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.41 points
19.93 points
48% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1313 points
1400 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

630 points
698 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1344 points
1447 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

653 points
720 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz
2.4 GHz
20% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
146% significantly lower TDP
37 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

12
16
33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
Identical
32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,002nd of 1,089
977th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i3
4th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 November
2013 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i3-6006U vs Core i3-4000M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-4000M is faster than the Core i3-6006U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-6006U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-4000M has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-6006U. A Core i3-6006U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-4000M CPU because of its significantly 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.

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