AMD A8-6500 vs AMD Athlon II X4 635

A8-6500 vs Athlon II X4 635 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X4 635 beats the A8-6500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-6500 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X4 635 has significantly more cores than the A8-6500. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 635 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A8-6500. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A8-6500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X4 635. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the A8-6500 has significantly more L2 cache than the Athlon II X4 635

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 A8-6500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.