AMD A6-9500 vs AMD A8-5600K

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

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AMD A8-5600K

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 19.01 significantly less expensive

$ 69.01

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

790 points

908 points

14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1734 points

1895 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

567 points

662 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

550 points

637 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

12.14 points

18.11 points

49% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

929 points

1047 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

624 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

439 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

957 points

1036 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

641 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

425 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

53% significantly lower TDP

100 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,006th of 1,089

979th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A6-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A6-9500 vs A8-5600K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the A8-5600K beats the A6-9500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A6-9500 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the A8-5600K has more threads. A A6-9500 CPU outputs less heat than a A8-5600K CPU because of its 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. For instance, the A6-9500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.