AMD A8-6600K vs AMD Athlon II X4 635

A8-6600K vs Athlon II X4 635 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X4 635 beats the A8-6600K in overall performance. Despite this, the A8-6600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X4 635 has significantly more cores than the A8-6600K. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 635 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A8-6600K. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-6600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon II X4 635. The info from our database shows that the A8-6600K has more L2 cache than the Athlon II X4 635

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.