Intel Core i7-6700 vs AMD A6-6310

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs AMD A6-Series APU for Desktops 4 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

3117 points

352% significantly better overall score

689 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4991 points

283% significantly better gaming score

1300 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2559 points

391% significantly better multitasking score

521 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2457 points

391% significantly better heavy workload score

500 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

69.31 points

894% significantly higher Blender score

6.97 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4052 points

605% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

574 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1252 points

458% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

224 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4207 points

601% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

600 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1320 points

478% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

228 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

88% significantly higher clock speed

1.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

66% significantly higher turbo speed

2.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

100% significantly more L1 cache

128 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

523rd of 1,089

1,034th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7

A6-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-6700 vs A6-6310 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6700 is faster than the A6-6310. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A6-6310 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-6700 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6700 has a significantly higher clock speed than the A6-6310. Also, the Core i7-6700 has a significantly higher turbo speed. The A6-6310 outputs less heat than Core i7-6700 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the A6-6310 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6700

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 i7-6700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.