Intel Core i3-6006U vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4000 Series Mobile 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 1249.00
$ 699.77
$ 549.23 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

809 points
4132 points
410% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1584 points
5983 points
277% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

605 points
3549 points
486% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

581 points
3422 points
488% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.41 points
89.80 points
569% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1313 points
4683 points
256% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

630 points
1316 points
108% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1344 points
4568 points
239% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

653 points
1316 points
101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
6
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz
2.1 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
Identical
15 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,002nd of 1,089
425th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i3
Ryzen 5 PRO 4000 Series Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 November
2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i3-6006U vs Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i3-6006U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-6006U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-6006U. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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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