AMD A10-6800K vs AMD A8-9600

Compare AMD A10-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 4 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

$ 467.04
$ 13.10
$ 453.94 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1559 points
8% slightly better overall score
1435 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2915 points
8% slightly better gaming score
2697 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1183 points
8% slightly better multitasking score
1088 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1134 points
8% slightly better heavy workload score
1044 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.26 points
19.59 points
47% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1136 points
1359 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

479 points
569 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1139 points
1498 points
31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

477 points
611 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.1 GHz
32% slightly higher clock speed
3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
29% slightly higher turbo speed
3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

100 W
65 W
53% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

797th of 1,089
828th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A10-Series APU for Desktops
A8-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June
2017 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

A10-6800K vs A8-9600 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A10-6800K performs better than the A8-9600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-9600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the A8-9600 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A10-6800K 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 A8-9600. Also, the A10-6800K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The A8-9600 outputs less heat than A10-6800K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the A10-6800K has more L2 cache than the A8-9600

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 A10-6800K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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