AMD A8-6600K vs Intel Core i5-4200M

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-4200M

Price

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$ 118.02

$ 459.98 significantly less expensive

$ 578.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1366 points

21% slightly better overall score

1121 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2599 points

16% slightly better gaming score

2225 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1031 points

23% slightly better multitasking score

833 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

989 points

23% slightly better heavy workload score

799 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.74 points

18.84 points

0.55% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1128 points

1625 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

468 points

849 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1081 points

1716 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

876 points

93% 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

56% significantly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

35% slightly higher turbo speed

3.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

37 W

75% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

848th of 1,089

918th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 November

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 i5-4200M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-6600K is faster than the Core i5-4200M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4200M in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A8-6600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4200M.

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.