AMD A10-6700 vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

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

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AMD Athlon II X4 640

Price

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$ 98.02

$ 48.02

$ 50.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1454 points

1463 points

0.62% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2783 points

2% slightly better gaming score

2727 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1092 points

1106 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1046 points

1058 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23.53 points

49% significantly higher Blender score

15.73 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1126 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

943 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

484 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

308 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1100 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

948 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

313 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

3 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

821st of 1,089

819th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A10-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A10-6700 vs Athlon II X4 640 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A10-6700 performs better than the Athlon II X4 640. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 640 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A10-6700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X4 640. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the A10-6700 has significantly more L2 cache than the Athlon II X4 640

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