AMD A6-9500 vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8600

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 E8600

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 48.95 significantly less expensive

$ 98.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

790 points

858 points

8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1734 points

1848 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

567 points

615 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

550 points

590 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

929 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

725 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

624 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

433 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

957 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

669 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

641 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

405 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

5% slightly higher clock speed

3.33 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

989th 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 August

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 E8600 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core 2 Duo E8600 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. With our hardware info, we find that the A6-9500 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 info from our database shows that the Core 2 Duo E8600 has 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.