AMD A8-6600K vs AMD A10-7890K

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs AMD A10-Series APU for Desktops 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

1366 points

0.74% slightly better overall score

1356 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2599 points

0.50% slightly better gaming score

2586 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1031 points

0.98% slightly better multitasking score

1021 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

989 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

978 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.74 points

26.81 points

43% significantly higher Blender 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

3.9 GHz

4.1 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.3 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

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

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

192 KiB

256 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

24.26 MiB

506% significantly more L2 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

848th of 1,089

853rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

A10-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

A8-6600K vs A10-7890K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-6600K is faster than the A10-7890K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-7890K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A10-7890K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A8-6600K. In terms of cache, the A8-6600K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the A10-7890K

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 A8-6600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.