AMD A6-6310 vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8500

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

862 points

25% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1300 points

1899 points

46% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

521 points

611 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

500 points

587 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

6.97 points

8.12 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

574 points

692 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

224 points

403 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

600 points

638 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

228 points

392 points

71% significantly 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

1.8 GHz

3.17 GHz

75% 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

6 MiB

200% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,034th of 1,089

987th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A6-Series APU for Desktops

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A6-6310 vs Core 2 Duo E8500 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 2 Duo E8500 is faster than the A6-6310. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A6-6310 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the A6-6310 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core 2 Duo E8500 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Duo E8500. With our hardware info, we find that the Core 2 Duo E8500 has a significantly higher clock speed than the A6-6310. A A6-6310 CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Duo E8500 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core 2 Duo E8500 has more L2 cache than the A6-6310

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.