AMD A6-9500 vs AMD PRO A10-8730B

Compare AMD A6-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs AMD PRO A-Series A10 APU for Laptops 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

790 points

4% slightly better overall score

755 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1734 points

20% slightly better gaming score

1434 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

567 points

570 points

0.53% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

550 points

0.55% slightly better heavy workload score

547 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

12.14 points

14.96 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

957 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

927 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

641 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

443 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

45% significantly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

3.3 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,006th of 1,089

1,017th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A6-Series APU for Desktops

PRO A-Series A10 APU for Laptops

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 PRO A10-8730B benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A6-9500 is faster than the PRO A10-8730B. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the PRO A10-8730B in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the PRO A10-8730B has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the A6-9500 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the A6-9500. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A6-9500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the PRO A10-8730B. Also, the A6-9500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the PRO A10-8730B has more L2 cache than the A6-9500

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the A6-9500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.