AMD A6-7400K vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8400

Compare AMD A6-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core 2 Duo E8400

Price

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$ 85.23

$ 23.03

$ 62.20 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

762 points

818 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1703 points

1767 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

536 points

586 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

513 points

563 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

9.28 points

10.18 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

743 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

622 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

451 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

352 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

585 points

615 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

408 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

373 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

16% slightly higher clock speed

3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

6 MiB

499% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,025th of 1,099

1,008th of 1,099

Family

The product line

A6-Series APU for Desktops

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 July

2008 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A6-7400K vs Core 2 Duo E8400 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A6-7400K performs better than the Core 2 Duo E8400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Duo E8400 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A6-7400K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 2 Duo E8400. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core 2 Duo E8400 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the A6-7400K

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 A6-7400K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.