AMD A10-6800K vs Intel Xeon X5450

Compare AMD A10-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 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
$ 59.01
$ 408.03 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1559 points
4% slightly better overall score
1492 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2915 points
6% slightly better gaming score
2733 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1183 points
3% slightly better multitasking score
1143 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1134 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score
1098 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1136 points
1348 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

479 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
426 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1139 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1123 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

477 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
389 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
3.00 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

100 W
20% slightly lower TDP
120 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
12 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

797th of 1,089
810th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A10-Series APU for Desktops
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June
2007 November

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 Xeon X5450 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A10-6800K is faster than the Xeon X5450. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5450 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon X5450 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A10-6800K has 2 cores. 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 Xeon X5450. A A10-6800K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5450 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Xeon X5450 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the A10-6800K

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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