AMD A8-6500 vs AMD Athlon X4 870K

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs AMD 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

1387 points
1400 points
0.94% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2608 points
2698 points
3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points
Identical
1049 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points
0.10% slightly better heavy workload score
1006 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.09 points
7% slightly higher Blender score
18.63 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1029 points
1209 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

438 points
468 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
3.89 GHz
11% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz
Identical
4.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
46% significantly lower TDP
95 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
Identical
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

843rd of 1,089
839th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

A8-6500 vs Athlon X4 870K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon X4 870K is faster than the A8-6500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-6500 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon X4 870K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A8-6500. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. A A8-6500 CPU outputs less heat than a Athlon X4 870K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache

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

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