AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Pentium 6405U

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs Intel 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
953 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1895 points
0.74% slightly better gaming score
1881 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

662 points
712 points
7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

637 points
683 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.11 points
46% significantly higher Blender score
12.36 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

100 W
15 W
566% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

979th of 1,089
965th of 1,089

A8-5600K vs Pentium 6405U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium 6405U performs better than the A8-5600K. Despite this, the A8-5600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. The Pentium 6405U 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the A8-5600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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