Intel Core i7-6600U vs AMD Athlon X4 750K

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 2 core CPU vs AMD 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1166 points
1297 points
11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2340 points
2477 points
5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

858 points
978 points
13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

820 points
940 points
14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23.09 points
18% slightly higher Blender score
19.51 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
3.4 GHz
30% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

908th of 1,089
871st of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-6600U vs Athlon X4 750K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon X4 750K performs better than the Core i7-6600U. Despite this, the Core i7-6600U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon X4 750K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6600U.

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

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