AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Pentium G860

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs Intel Pentium 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Pentium G860

Price

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$ 69.01

$ 1.72 slightly less expensive

$ 70.73

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

908 points

927 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1895 points

1998 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

662 points

666 points

0.60% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

637 points

639 points

0.31% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.11 points

76% significantly higher Blender score

10.26 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1036 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

748 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

425 points

447 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

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

973rd of 1,089

Family

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Pentium

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

A8-5600K vs Pentium G860 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Pentium G860 beats the A8-5600K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5600K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the A8-5600K has more threads. The Pentium G860 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.

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.