AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Core i7-960

A8-5600K vs Core i7-960 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-960 performs better than the A8-5600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5600K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-960 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A8-5600K has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the A8-5600K. A A8-5600K CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-960 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. Indeed, the A8-5600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.