AMD A8-6600K vs AMD A8-7600

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 A8-7600

Price

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$ 118.02

$ 82.49

$ 35.53 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1366 points

0.66% slightly better overall score

1357 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2599 points

1% slightly better gaming score

2567 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1031 points

0.39% slightly better multitasking score

1027 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

989 points

0.30% slightly better heavy workload score

986 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.74 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

18.02 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1128 points

1150 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

468 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

456 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1081 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1045 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

429 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

25% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 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

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

852nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

A8-6600K vs A8-7600 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-6600K performs better than the A8-7600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-7600 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-6600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the A8-7600. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the A8-6600K has significantly more L2 cache than the A8-7600

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.