AMD A8-5600K vs AMD FX-770K

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs AMD 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

908 points

1287 points

41% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1895 points

2439 points

28% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

662 points

971 points

46% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

637 points

931 points

46% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.11 points

0.41% slightly higher Blender score

18.04 points

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

100 W

65 W

53% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

979th of 1,089

874th of 1,089

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

A8-5600K vs FX-770K comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-770K performs better than the A8-5600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5600K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. The FX-770K 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.