AMD A6-6310 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

689 points
721 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1300 points
1593 points
22% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

521 points
2% slightly better multitasking score
510 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

500 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score
489 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

574 points
611 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

224 points
329 points
46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

600 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
500 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

228 points
285 points
25% slightly 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

1.8 GHz
2.81 GHz
56% significantly 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

1,034th of 1,089
1,025th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A6-Series APU for Desktops
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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

No
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A6-6310 vs Athlon II X2 220 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X2 220 beats the A6-6310 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A6-6310 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the A6-6310 has significantly more cores than the Athlon II X2 220. Indeed, the A6-6310 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Athlon II X2 220. It also has more threads than the Athlon II X2 220. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X2 220 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the A6-6310. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the A6-6310 has significantly more L2 cache than the Athlon II X2 220

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the A6-6310 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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