AMD A8-6600K vs AMD Athlon X4 870K

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1366 points

1400 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2599 points

2698 points

3% 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

1006 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.74 points

0.59% slightly higher Blender score

18.63 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1081 points

1209 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

468 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

0.18% slightly higher clock speed

3.89 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

46% significantly lower TDP

95 W

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

839th 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 Athlon X4 870K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon X4 870K is faster than the A8-6600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-6600K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A8-6600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon X4 870K. Also, the A8-6600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A A8-6600K CPU outputs less heat than a Athlon X4 870K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 Athlon X4 870K

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.