AMD A8-6600K vs Intel Core i5-3380M

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-3380M

Price

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$ 118.02

$ 1394.98 significantly less expensive

$ 1513.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1366 points

13% slightly better overall score

1206 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2599 points

9% slightly better gaming score

2384 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1031 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

898 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

989 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

860 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.74 points

19.64 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1128 points

1425 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

468 points

633 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1081 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1060 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

508 points

12% 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

34% slightly higher clock speed

2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

35 W

85% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

848th of 1,089

898th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 February

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

A8-6600K vs Core i5-3380M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3380M beats the A8-6600K in overall performance. Despite this, the A8-6600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A8-6600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3380M.

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.