AMD A6-6310 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

689 points
Identical
689 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1300 points
1518 points
16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

521 points
6% slightly better multitasking score
490 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

500 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score
471 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

6.97 points
7.02 points
0.70% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

600 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
535 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

228 points
321 points
40% 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
3 GHz
66% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
333% 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

1,034th 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

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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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A6-6310 vs Core 2 Duo E6850 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 2 Duo E6850 is faster than the A6-6310. 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 Core 2 Duo E6850. Indeed, the A6-6310 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core 2 Duo E6850. 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 A6-6310. A A6-6310 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core 2 Duo E6850 has significantly more L2 cache than the A6-6310

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 A6-6310 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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