AMD A10-6700 vs AMD A10-6800K

Compare AMD A10-Series APU for Desktops 4 core CPU vs AMD A10-Series APU for Desktops 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 98.02
$ 369.02 significantly less expensive
$ 467.04

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1454 points
1559 points
7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2783 points
2915 points
4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1092 points
1183 points
8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1046 points
1134 points
8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23.53 points
77% significantly higher Blender score
13.26 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1126 points
1136 points
0.89% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

484 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
479 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1100 points
1139 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points
477 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
4.1 GHz
10% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
4.4 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
53% significantly lower TDP
100 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

192 KiB
Identical
192 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
Identical
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

821st of 1,089
797th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A10-Series APU for Desktops
A10-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June
2013 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

A10-6700 vs A10-6800K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A10-6800K is faster than the A10-6700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-6700 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the A10-6700 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the A10-6800K that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A10-6800K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A10-6700. Also, the A10-6800K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A A10-6700 CPU outputs less heat than a A10-6800K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache

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. For instance, the A10-6700 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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