AMD A8-6410 vs Intel Core 2 Duo E6850

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Laptops 4 core CPU vs Intel Core 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

676 points
689 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1314 points
1518 points
15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

498 points
1% slightly better multitasking score
490 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

477 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score
471 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

10.03 points
42% significantly higher Blender score
7.02 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

603 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
535 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

228 points
321 points
40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
100% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz
3 GHz
49% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
333% significantly lower TDP
65 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
4 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,039th of 1,089
1,033rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Laptops
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2007 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3L
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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A8-6410 vs Core 2 Duo E6850 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 2 Duo E6850 is faster than the A8-6410. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-6410 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the A8-6410 has significantly more cores than the Core 2 Duo E6850. Indeed, the A8-6410 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core 2 Duo E6850. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Duo E6850. With our hardware info, we find that the Core 2 Duo E6850 has a significantly higher clock speed than the A8-6410. A A8-6410 CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Duo E6850 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core 2 Duo E6850 has more L2 cache than the A8-6410

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. For instance, the A8-6410 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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