AMD A10-6800K vs Intel Core i7-950

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Price

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$ 467.04
$ 31.00
$ 436.04 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1559 points
1622 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2915 points
13% slightly better gaming score
2577 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1183 points
1334 points
12% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1134 points
1280 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.26 points
30.71 points
131% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1136 points
1595 points
40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

479 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
460 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1139 points
1494 points
31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

477 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
457 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.1 GHz
33% slightly higher clock speed
3.06 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
32% slightly higher turbo speed
3.33 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

100 W
30% slightly lower TDP
130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
3
49% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

821st of 1,124
807th of 1,124

Family

The product line

A10-Series APU for Desktops
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June
2009 May

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

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