AMD A8-6600K vs Intel Core i5-3470

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-3470

Price

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$ 118.02

$ 99.37 significantly less expensive

$ 217.39

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1366 points

2020 points

47% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2599 points

3714 points

42% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1031 points

1543 points

49% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

989 points

1482 points

49% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.74 points

30.09 points

60% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1128 points

1862 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

468 points

620 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1081 points

1843 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

622 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz

21% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 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

18% slightly lower TDP

77 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

848th of 1,089

712th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 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

A8-6600K vs Core i5-3470 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3470 beats the A8-6600K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-6600K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-3470 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 slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3470.

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.