AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Celeron J6412

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs Intel Celeron J Series 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

908 points
1329 points
46% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1895 points
2522 points
33% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

662 points
1005 points
51% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

637 points
965 points
51% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1036 points
1239 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

425 points
438 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

100 W
10 W
900% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

979th of 1,089
862nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Celeron J Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR4-3733

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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No

A8-5600K vs Celeron J6412 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Celeron J6412 is faster than the A8-5600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5600K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Celeron J6412 has significantly more cores than the A8-5600K. Indeed, the Celeron J6412 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A8-5600K. But they both have the same number of threads. The Celeron J6412 outputs less heat than A8-5600K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the A8-5600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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