A8-6600K vs Core i5-2500 benchmarks
In our benchmarks, the Core i5-2500 beats the A8-6600K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-6600K in all gaming tests too.
In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-2500 has significantly more cores than the A8-6600K. Indeed, the Core i5-2500 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 Core i5-2500. Also, the A8-6600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A A8-6600K CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-2500 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.
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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