AMD A6-5200 vs AMD Athlon II X2 220

Compare AMD A6-Series APU for Desktops 4 core CPU vs AMD 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

709 points

721 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1313 points

1593 points

21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

540 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

510 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

518 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

489 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

559 points

611 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

202 points

329 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

587 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

500 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

205 points

285 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

2.81 GHz

40% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,027th of 1,089

1,025th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A6-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A6-5200 vs Athlon II X2 220 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the A6-5200 beats the Athlon II X2 220 in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon II X2 220 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the A6-5200 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon II X2 220 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon II X2 220. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X2 220 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A6-5200. The info from our database shows that the A6-5200 has more L2 cache than the Athlon II X2 220

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. For instance, the A6-5200 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.