Intel Core i5-6400T vs AMD Athlon 3000G

Core i5-6400T vs Athlon 3000G specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon 3000G performs better than the Core i5-6400T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6400T in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-6400T has significantly more cores than the Athlon 3000G. Indeed, the Core i5-6400T has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Athlon 3000G. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon 3000G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-6400T. 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. For instance, the Core i5-6400T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.