AMD A10-7890K vs AMD A8-7650K

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

2% slightly better overall score

1322 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2586 points

2% slightly better gaming score

2531 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1021 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

994 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

978 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

952 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.81 points

46% significantly higher Blender score

18.32 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

24% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 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

Identical

256 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

863rd 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

2015 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

A10-7890K vs A8-7650K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-7650K is faster than the A10-7890K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-7890K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A10-7890K has a slightly higher clock speed than the A8-7650K. Also, the A10-7890K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The A8-7650K 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. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache

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 A10-7890K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.