AMD A8-6410 vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8500

A8-6410 vs Core 2 Duo E8500 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core 2 Duo E8500 beats the A8-6410 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-6410 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the A8-6410 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core 2 Duo E8500 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Duo E8500. With our hardware info, we find that the Core 2 Duo E8500 has a significantly higher clock speed than the A8-6410. A A8-6410 CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Duo E8500 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core 2 Duo E8500 has significantly 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.