AMD A8-6500 vs Intel Xeon E5-450

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

1467 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2608 points

2728 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points

1109 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points

1061 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.09 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

19.01 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1350 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1071 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

496 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

378 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1029 points

1100 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

438 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

391 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

16% slightly higher clock speed

3.00 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

23% slightly lower TDP

80 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

12 MiB

200% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

843rd of 1,089

816th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June

2007 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A8-6500 vs Xeon E5-450 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-450 beats the A8-6500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-6500 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-450 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A8-6500 has 2 cores. 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 Xeon E5-450. A A8-6500 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-450 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Xeon E5-450 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the A8-6500

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.