AMD A8-6500 vs Intel Core i7-860

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 284.69
$ 54.25
$ 230.44 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1387 points
1632 points
17% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2608 points
0.04% slightly better gaming score
2607 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points
1342 points
27% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points
1289 points
28% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.09 points
30.74 points
53% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1350 points
1475 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

496 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
441 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1029 points
1475 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

438 points
451 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
25% slightly higher clock speed
2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz
18% slightly higher turbo speed
3.46 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
46% significantly lower TDP
95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

843rd of 1,089
783rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June
2009 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

A8-6500 vs Core i7-860 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-860 is faster than the A8-6500. Despite this, the A8-6500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-860 has significantly more cores than the A8-6500. Indeed, the Core i7-860 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A8-6500. It also has more threads than the A8-6500. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-6500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-860. Also, the A8-6500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A A8-6500 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-860 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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

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