AMD A10-6800K vs AMD Phenom II X4 B50

A10-6800K vs Phenom II X4 B50 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X4 B50 beats the A10-6800K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-6800K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X4 B50 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 Phenom II X4 B50. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the A10-6800K has significantly more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 B50

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.