AMD A10-6800K vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

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

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Price

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$ 467.04
$ 48.02
$ 419.02 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1559 points
6% slightly better overall score
1463 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2915 points
6% slightly better gaming score
2727 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1183 points
6% slightly better multitasking score
1106 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1134 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score
1058 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.26 points
15.73 points
18% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1136 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
943 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

479 points
55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
308 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1139 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
948 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

477 points
52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
313 points

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
36% 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

797th of 1,089
819th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A10-Series APU for Desktops
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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A10-6800K vs Athlon II X4 640 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A10-6800K is faster 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Athlon II X4 640 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 Athlon II X4 640. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the A10-6800K has significantly more L2 cache than the Athlon II X4 640

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

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