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Intel Core i5-6400 vs AMD A6-6310

Last updated: 2026-05-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-6400

Rank 2 - 29 %

AMD A6-6310

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-6400

Rank 2 - 36 %

AMD A6-6310

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

841

4C / 4T · 2.40 GHz

241

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

2,706

4C / 4T · 2.40 GHz

724

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics 530

365

AMD Radeon R4 (Beema)

205

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.70 GHz

1,360

4C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

448

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

140 cb

4C / 4T · 2.40 GHz

48 cb

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

497 cb

4C / 4T · 2.40 GHz

162 cb

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6400	AMD A6-6310
Family	Intel Core i5 (336)	AMD A (112)
CPU group	Intel Core i 6000 (24)	AMD A6-6000 (3)
Architecture	Skylake S	Richland (Piledriver)
Technology	14 nm	32 nm
Segment	Desktop	Desktop
Socket	LGA 1151	AM1
Predecessor
Successor	Intel Core i5-7400

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6400	AMD A6-6310
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	4x
Frequency:	2.70 GHz	2.00 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	3.30 GHz	2.40 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	3.00 GHz	2.40 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	6.00 MB	2.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6400	AMD A6-6310
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 530	AMD Radeon R4 (Beema)
GPU frequency	0.35 - 0.95 GHz	0.80 GHz
CUs / Shader	24 / 192	2 / 128
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	2
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	2 GB
Technology	14 nm	28 nm
Release date	Q3/2015	Q2/2014

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6400	AMD A6-6310
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6400	AMD A6-6310
Memory	DDR4-2133 (34.1 GB/s) DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)	DDR3L-1866 (29.9 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6400	AMD A6-6310
TDP	65 W	15 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6400	AMD A6-6310
Chip design	Monolithic	Unknown
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4
Release date	Q3/2015	Q2/2014
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i5-6400 is 3.9 stars (31 ratings), while AMD A6-6310 has received 3.4 stars (17 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i5-6400
4C / 4T · 2.70 - 3.30 GHz

★★★★★

AMD A6-6310
4C / 4T · 2.00 - 2.40 GHz

★★★★★