Intel Core i7-6600U vs AMD Athlon II X3 445

Core i7-6600U vs Athlon II X3 445 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon II X3 445 performs better than the Core i7-6600U. Despite this, the Core i7-6600U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X3 445 has significantly more cores with 3 cores whereas the Core i7-6600U has 2 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-6600U has more threads than the Athlon II X3 445. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X3 445 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6600U.

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 i7-6600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.