AMD A8-5600K Benchmark and Specs

AMD A8-5600K Processor benchmark and specs - 2 core AMD CPU rating. Is the A8-5600K good for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

13 %

Average score from 1 sample
High uncertainty

Performance

Average

Ranking

498th of 622

Popularity

440th of 622

Samples

1 benchmarks

CPU benchmarks

Here are the performance results of this CPU in both the hardwareDB Benchmark and other benchmark utilities. Synthetic tests are an estimation of real-world performance using consistent and repeatable benchmarks.

Overall

Average

13 %

Gaming

Average

24 %

Multitasking

Bad

10 %

Heavy Workloads

Bad

9 %

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Alternative benchmarks

Here are some benchmark results using alternative testing software

Geekbench 5 (multi)

Multi threaded benchmark

1,047

Geekbench 5 (single)

Single threaded benchmark

439

Geekbench 6 (multi)

Multi threaded benchmark

1,062

Geekbench 6 (single)

Single threaded benchmark

445

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CPU Comparison

The AMD A8-5600K compared against popular alternatives. Compare against more CPUs with our CPU Comparison Tool.

Intel Core i5-10505	50 %
Intel Core i7-1185G7	26 %
Intel Core i7-960	20 %
AMD A8-6600K	14 %
AMD A8-5600K	13 %
Intel Core i5-5300U	11 %
Intel Core i5-6300U	11 %

Specifications

Cores	2
Threads	4
TDP	100 W

AMD A8-5600K

The A8-5600K is a 2 core CPU from AMD. This chip has an average overall score at 13% in our CPU benchmark. Our gaming benchmark shows that this CPU is an average processor for gaming, with a score of 24%. As for multitasking and heavy workloads, the A8-5600K scores 10% and 9% respectively. Indeed, this is a bad rating for very heavy workloads.

The A8-5600K has 2 cores and 4 threads. This CPU makes use of simultaneous multithreading technology to improve performance on parallel tasks. Each physical CPU core is divided into multiple logical processors.

Power and thermals for the AMD A8-5600K CPU are a TDP (Thermal Design Power) of 100 watts. This measures the amount of heat the processor produces when running at full load. This isn't a measure of power consumption, but it's good estimate.

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