AMD A10-6800K vs Intel Core i5-2400

Compare AMD A10-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 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
$ 60.50
$ 406.54 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1559 points
1911 points
22% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2915 points
3500 points
20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1183 points
1462 points
23% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1134 points
1403 points
23% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.26 points
26.55 points
100% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1136 points
1612 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

479 points
550 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1139 points
1606 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

477 points
551 points
15% 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
95 W
5% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

797th of 1,089
737th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A10-Series APU for Desktops
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June
2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

A10-6800K vs Core i5-2400 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-2400 is faster than the A10-6800K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-6800K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-2400 has significantly more cores than the A10-6800K. Indeed, the Core i5-2400 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A10-6800K. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A10-6800K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-2400. Also, the A10-6800K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-2400 outputs less heat than A10-6800K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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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