AMD A8-6600K vs Intel Celeron J4105

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs Intel Celeron J Series 4 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
43% significantly better overall score
954 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2599 points
41% slightly better gaming score
1837 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1031 points
44% significantly better multitasking score
715 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

989 points
44% significantly better heavy workload score
686 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.74 points
121% significantly higher Blender score
8.45 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1128 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
968 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

468 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
326 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1081 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
928 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
324 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz
160% significantly higher clock speed
1.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
10 W
550% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

848th of 1,089
964th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops
Celeron J Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

A8-6600K vs Celeron J4105 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Celeron J4105 is faster than the A8-6600K. Despite this, the A8-6600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Celeron J4105 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A8-6600K has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A8-6600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron J4105.

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.

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