AMD A6-7400K vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8600

A6-7400K vs Core 2 Duo E8600 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core 2 Duo E8600 beats the A6-7400K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A6-7400K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number 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 E8600. 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core 2 Duo E8600 has significantly more L2 cache than 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.