Intel Core i3-6006U vs AMD PRO A10-8730B

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs AMD PRO A-Series A10 APU for Laptops 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

793 points
5% slightly better overall score
755 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1543 points
7% slightly better gaming score
1434 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

594 points
4% slightly better multitasking score
570 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

571 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score
547 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.41 points
14.96 points
11% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1344 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
927 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

653 points
47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
443 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

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

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,031st of 1,116
1,044th of 1,116

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i3
PRO A-Series A10 APU for Laptops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 November
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i3-6006U vs PRO A10-8730B specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-6006U beats the PRO A10-8730B in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the PRO A10-8730B in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the PRO A10-8730B has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-6006U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the PRO A10-8730B has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-6006U.

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.

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