AMD Ryzen 5 3400G vs Intel Core i3-6006U

Ryzen 5 3400G vs Core i3-6006U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3400G is faster than the Core i3-6006U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-6006U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 3400G has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-6006U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-6006U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3400G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-6006U. The Core i3-6006U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3400G 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3400G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.