AMD A8-6600K vs AMD A8-5600K

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 A8-5600K

Price

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$ 118.02

$ 69.01

$ 49.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1366 points

50% significantly better overall score

908 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2599 points

37% slightly better gaming score

1895 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1031 points

55% significantly better multitasking score

662 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

989 points

55% significantly better heavy workload score

637 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.74 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

18.11 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1128 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1047 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

468 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

439 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1081 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1036 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

425 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

53% significantly lower TDP

100 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

848th of 1,089

979th 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 A8-5600K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-6600K performs better than the A8-5600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5600K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the A8-6600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.