Intel Core i3-6157U vs Intel Pentium 6405U

Core i3-6157U vs Pentium 6405U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-6157U performs better than the Pentium 6405U. Despite this, the Pentium 6405U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. The Pentium 6405U outputs less heat than Core i3-6157U thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i3-6157U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.