AMD A6-5200 vs Intel Core 2 Duo E6850

Compare AMD A6-Series APU for Desktops 4 core CPU vs Intel Core 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
2% slightly better overall score
689 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1313 points
1518 points
15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

540 points
10% slightly better multitasking score
490 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

518 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score
471 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

7.43 points
5% slightly higher Blender score
7.02 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

587 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
535 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

205 points
321 points
56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
100% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz
3 GHz
49% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

25 W
160% significantly lower TDP
65 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
4 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,027th of 1,089
1,033rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

A6-Series APU for Desktops
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May
2007 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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A6-5200 vs Core 2 Duo E6850 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the A6-5200 beats the Core 2 Duo E6850 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core 2 Duo E6850 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the A6-5200 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core 2 Duo E6850 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Duo E6850. Our comparison shows that the Core 2 Duo E6850 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the A6-5200. A A6-5200 CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Duo E6850 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core 2 Duo E6850 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the A6-5200

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

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