Intel Pentium 3556U vs Intel Core m3-6Y30

Pentium 3556U vs Core m3-6Y30 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core m3-6Y30 beats the Pentium 3556U in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium 3556U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core m3-6Y30 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium 3556U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core m3-6Y30. The Core m3-6Y30 outputs less heat than Pentium 3556U thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. For instance, the Pentium 3556U has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.