AMD A6-6400K vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200

Compare AMD A6-Series APU for Desktops 1 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 75.00
$ 48.21
$ 26.79 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

811 points
3% slightly better overall score
784 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1725 points
20% slightly better gaming score
1436 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

592 points
602 points
1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

570 points
580 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

11.64 points
56% significantly higher Blender score
7.45 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

728 points
1016 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

452 points
42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
318 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

569 points
825 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

406 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
292 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

1
4
300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz
67% significantly higher clock speed
2.33 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
46% significantly lower TDP
95 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
2 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,001st of 1,089
1,009th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A6-Series APU for Desktops
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June
2008 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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A6-6400K vs Core 2 Quad Q8200 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A6-6400K is faster than the Core 2 Quad Q8200. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Quad Q8200 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 2 Quad Q8200 has significantly more cores than the A6-6400K. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q8200 has 4 cores compared to 1 cores found in the A6-6400K. It also has more threads than the A6-6400K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A6-6400K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Quad Q8200. A A6-6400K CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Quad Q8200 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 Quad Q8200 has significantly more L2 cache than the A6-6400K

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

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