AMD A6-9500 vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8500

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 E8500

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 59.95 significantly less expensive

$ 109.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

790 points

862 points

9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1734 points

1899 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

567 points

611 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

550 points

587 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

12.14 points

49% significantly higher Blender score

8.12 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

929 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

692 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

624 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

403 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

957 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

638 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

641 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

392 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

10% slightly higher clock speed

3.17 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

1,006th of 1,089

987th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A6-Series APU for Desktops

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 September

2008 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A6-9500 vs Core 2 Duo E8500 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 2 Duo E8500 is faster than the A6-9500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A6-9500 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A6-9500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Duo E8500. 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 E8500 has significantly more L2 cache than the A6-9500

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