AMD A8-6500 vs AMD PRO A8-8670E

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs AMD 4 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
1388 points
0.07% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2608 points
0.15% slightly better gaming score
2604 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points
1054 points
0.48% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points
1011 points
0.40% slightly better heavy workload score

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
25% slightly higher clock speed
2.8 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

849th of 1,099
848th of 1,099

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
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A8-6500 vs PRO A8-8670E benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the PRO A8-8670E 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 PRO A8-8670E has significantly more cores than the A8-6500. Indeed, the PRO A8-8670E has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A8-6500. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-6500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the PRO A8-8670E. In terms of cache, the A8-6500 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the PRO A8-8670E

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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