AMD A8-6600K vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

A8-6600K vs Athlon II X4 640 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X4 640 beats the A8-6600K in overall performance. Despite this, the A8-6600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A8-6600K has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A8-6600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X4 640. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the A8-6600K has significantly more L2 cache than the Athlon II X4 640

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.