AMD A8-6500 vs AMD FX-4300

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

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AMD FX-4300

Price

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$ 284.69

$ 49.00

$ 235.69 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1387 points

2% slightly better overall score

1352 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2608 points

3% slightly better gaming score

2531 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

1026 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

986 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.09 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

17.26 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1350 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1076 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

496 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

434 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1029 points

1111 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

438 points

453 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

3.8 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

95 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

192 KiB

Identical

192 KiB

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

855th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

A8-6500 vs FX-4300 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-6500 is faster than the FX-4300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4300 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 FX-4300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A8-6500. A A8-6500 CPU outputs less heat than a FX-4300 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache

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.