AMD A10-7890K vs AMD A8-6500

Compare AMD A10-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1356 points

1387 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2586 points

2608 points

0.85% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1021 points

1049 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

978 points

1007 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.81 points

33% slightly higher Blender score

20.09 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.1 GHz

17% slightly higher clock speed

3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

4.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

192 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

Identical

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

853rd of 1,089

843rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

A10-Series APU for Desktops

A8-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 January

2013 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

A10-7890K vs A8-6500 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A10-7890K is faster than the A8-6500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-6500 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A10-7890K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A8-6500. Also, the A10-7890K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The A8-6500 outputs less heat than A10-7890K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the A10-7890K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.