Intel Core i7-6600U vs AMD Athlon II X3 450

Core i7-6600U vs Athlon II X3 450 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X3 450 beats the Core i7-6600U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6600U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Athlon II X3 450 has significantly more cores with 3 cores compared to the Core i7-6600U that has 2 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-6600U has more threads than the Athlon II X3 450. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X3 450 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6600U.

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