Intel Core i7-6650U vs AMD A6-3650

Core i7-6650U vs A6-3650 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A6-3650 performs better than the Core i7-6650U. Despite this, the Core i7-6650U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the A6-3650 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i7-6650U that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. A Core i7-6650U CPU outputs less heat than a A6-3650 CPU because of its 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 i7-6650U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.