AMD A6-6400K vs AMD A8-5545M

Compare AMD A6-Series APU for Desktops 1 core CPU vs AMD 4 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

811 points

814 points

0.37% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1725 points

9% slightly better gaming score

1574 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

592 points

610 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

570 points

586 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

11.64 points

44% significantly higher Blender score

8.08 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

728 points

745 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

452 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

275 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

569 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

526 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

406 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

226 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

51% significantly higher turbo speed

2.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

19 W

242% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

96 KiB

512 KiB

433% significantly more L1 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,001st of 1,089

1,000th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A6-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

A6-6400K vs A8-5545M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the A8-5545M beats the A6-6400K in overall performance. Despite this, the A6-6400K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the A8-5545M has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A6-6400K has 1 cores. It also has more threads than the A6-6400K. The A8-5545M outputs less heat than A6-6400K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. Indeed, the A6-6400K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.