AMD A8-6600K vs AMD A8-6500

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

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AMD A8-6500

Price

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$ 118.02

$ 166.67 significantly less expensive

$ 284.69

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1366 points

1387 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2599 points

2608 points

0.35% slightly better gaming score

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

20.09 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1128 points

1350 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

468 points

496 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1081 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1029 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

438 points

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

11% slightly higher clock speed

3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

192 KiB

Identical

192 KiB

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

870th of 1,118

865th of 1,118

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

A8-6600K vs A8-6500 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the A8-6500 beats the A8-6600K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-6600K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-6600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the A8-6500. Also, the A8-6600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the A8-6600K 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 A8-6600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.