AMD A10-7890K vs Intel Core i7-6498DU

Compare AMD A10-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs Intel 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
1361 points
0.37% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2586 points
2723 points
5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1021 points
0.89% slightly better multitasking score
1012 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

978 points
0.31% slightly better heavy workload score
975 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.81 points
32.79 points
22% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.1 GHz
57% significantly higher clock speed
2.60 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
700% significantly more L2 cache
0.5 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

853rd of 1,089
851st of 1,089

Family

The product line

A10-Series APU for Desktops
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 January
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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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A10-7890K vs Core i7-6498DU benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-6498DU performs better than the A10-7890K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-7890K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A10-7890K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6498DU. The info from our database shows that the A10-7890K has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6498DU

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.

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