AMD A8-6600K vs Intel Core i3-4150

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i3 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

1436 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2599 points

2787 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1031 points

1076 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

989 points

1034 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.74 points

28.01 points

49% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1128 points

1994 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

468 points

1003 points

114% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1081 points

2052 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

1054 points

132% significantly 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

11% slightly higher clock speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

54 W

20% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

848th of 1,089

827th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

4th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

A8-6600K vs Core i3-4150 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-4150 beats the A8-6600K in overall performance. 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. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-6600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-4150.

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.