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Intel Core i5-6400 vs Intel Atom x7-E3950

Last updated: 2026-06-05

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 %

Intel Atom x7-E3950

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-6400

Rank 2 - 36 %

Intel Atom x7-E3950

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

1,134

4C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

246

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

3,086

4C / 4T · 1.60 GHz

784

Cinebench R20 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

275 cb

4C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

94 cb

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

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

841

4C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

307

Cinebench R20 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

1,061 cb

4C / 4T · 1.60 GHz

275 cb

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

4C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

2,706

4C / 4T · 1.60 GHz

1,154

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics 530

365

Intel HD Graphics 505

187

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

140 cb

4C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

40 cb

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

497 cb

4C / 4T · 1.60 GHz

124 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	Intel Atom x7-E3950
Family	Intel Core i5 (336)	Intel Atom (108)
CPU group	Intel Core i 6000 (24)	Intel Atom x3/x5/x7 (9)
Architecture	Skylake S	Cherry Trail
Technology	14 nm	14 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	LGA 1151	BGA 1296
Predecessor
Successor	Intel Core i5-7400

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6400	Intel Atom x7-E3950
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	4x
Frequency:	2.70 GHz	1.60 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	3.30 GHz	2.00 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	3.00 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	6.00 MB	2.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6400	Intel Atom x7-E3950
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 530	Intel HD Graphics 505
GPU frequency	0.35 - 0.95 GHz	0.50 - 0.65 GHz
CUs / Shader	24 / 192	18 / 144
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	8 GB
Technology	14 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q3/2015	Q3/2016

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6400	Intel Atom x7-E3950
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6400	Intel Atom x7-E3950
Memory	DDR4-2133 (34.1 GB/s) DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)	LPDDR3-1866 (38.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB	8 GB
Memory channels	2	4
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe	3.0 x 16	2.0 x 6
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s	3.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6400	Intel Atom x7-E3950
TDP	65 W	12 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		110 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6400	Intel Atom x7-E3950
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Release date	Q3/2015	Q4/2016
Release price		57 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	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 Intel Atom x7-E3950 has received 1.8 stars (6 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

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

★★★★★

Intel Atom x7-E3950
4C / 4T · 1.60 - 2.00 GHz

★★★★★