AMD A6-9500 vs AMD A6-7400K

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

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AMD A6-7400K

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 35.23 significantly less expensive

$ 85.23

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

790 points

3% slightly better overall score

762 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1734 points

1% slightly better gaming score

1703 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

567 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

536 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

550 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

513 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

12.14 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

9.28 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

929 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

743 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

624 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

451 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

957 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

585 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

641 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

408 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

Identical

3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

3.9 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

Identical

1 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,006th of 1,089

1,015th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A6-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 September

2014 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A6-9500 vs A6-7400K comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A6-7400K performs better than the A6-9500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A6-9500 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. According to our data, the A6-9500 and A6-7400K have the same clock speed. Despite this, the A6-7400K has a slightly higher turbo speed. 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, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache

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 A6-9500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.