AMD A8-6600K vs AMD A6-3670

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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 118.02
$ 582.98 significantly less expensive
$ 701.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1366 points
1411 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2599 points
2611 points
0.46% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1031 points
1076 points
4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

989 points
1032 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1128 points
1218 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

468 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
364 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1081 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
856 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points
52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
297 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
53% significantly lower TDP
100 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

848th of 1,089
834th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops
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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

Yes
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A8-6600K vs A6-3670 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A6-3670 performs better than the A8-6600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-6600K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the A6-3670 has significantly more cores than the A8-6600K. Indeed, the A6-3670 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A8-6600K. But they both have the same number of threads.

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.

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