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

908

Bad score from 2 samples
High uncertainty

Performance

Bad

Ranking

979th of 1,089

Popularity

648th of 1,089

Samples

2 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

Bad

908

Gaming

Average

1,895

Multitasking

Bad

662

Heavy Workloads

Bad

637

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Alternative benchmarks

Here are some benchmark results using alternative testing software

Blender

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

Geekbench 5 (multi)

Multi threaded benchmark

1,047

Geekbench 5 (single)

Single threaded benchmark

439

Geekbench 6 (multi)

Multi threaded benchmark

1,036

Geekbench 6 (single)

Single threaded benchmark

425

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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 i7-960	1,995 points
AMD A8-6600K	1,366 points
AMD A8-7600	1,357 points
Intel N100	1,289 points
Intel Core i7-7600U	1,234 points
Intel Core i5-6300U	1,069 points
AMD A8-5600K	908 points

Specifications

Cores	2
Threads	4
TDP	100 W

AMD A8-5600K

The A8-5600K is a 2 core CPU from AMD. This chip has a bad overall score with 908 points in our CPU benchmark. Our gaming benchmark shows that this CPU is an average processor for gaming, with a score of 1895 points. As for multitasking and heavy workloads, the A8-5600K scores 662 points and 637 points 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 a good estimate.

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