AMD A8-6600K vs AMD A8-5500

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

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AMD A8-5500

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 118.02

$ 471.98 significantly less expensive

$ 590.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1366 points

1380 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2599 points

0.89% slightly better gaming score

2576 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1031 points

1049 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

989 points

1007 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.74 points

34% slightly higher Blender score

13.88 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1128 points

1228 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

468 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

444 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1081 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

911 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

377 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

848th of 1,089

844th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

A8-6600K vs A8-5500 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-5500 is faster than the A8-6600K. Despite this, the A8-6600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads.

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