Intel Core i7-6920HQ vs AMD Athlon 3000G

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs AMD Athlon Desktop 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

1713 points
15% slightly better overall score
1477 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2720 points
2742 points
0.81% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1419 points
25% slightly better multitasking score
1135 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1360 points
24% slightly better heavy workload score
1095 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

56.11 points
78% significantly higher Blender score
31.38 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3551 points
80% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1966 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1105 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
957 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3793 points
92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1970 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1184 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
956 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz
3.5 GHz
20% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
35 W
28% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

772nd of 1,089
813th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7
Athlon Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
-

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i7-6920HQ vs Athlon 3000G comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-6920HQ beats the Athlon 3000G in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon 3000G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-6920HQ has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Athlon 3000G that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon 3000G. Our comparison shows that the Athlon 3000G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6920HQ. The Athlon 3000G outputs less heat than Core i7-6920HQ thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-6920HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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