AMD A8-4500M vs AMD PRO A8-8600B

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs AMD PRO A-Series A8 APU for Laptops 2 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

802 points

834 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1549 points

1650 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

600 points

617 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

575 points

589 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

646 points

982 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

288 points

411 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

15 W

133% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,003rd of 1,089

994th of 1,089

Family

The product line

PRO A-Series A8 APU for Laptops

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A8-4500M vs PRO A8-8600B specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the PRO A8-8600B beats the A8-4500M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-4500M in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads.

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. Indeed, the A8-4500M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.