AMD A8-6600K vs Intel Core i5-4300M

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 i5-4300M

Price

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$ 118.02

$ 350.98 significantly less expensive

$ 469.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1366 points

3% slightly better overall score

1314 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2599 points

2638 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1031 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

972 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

989 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

937 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.74 points

18.96 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1128 points

1708 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

468 points

844 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1081 points

1842 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

949 points

109% 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

49% significantly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

27% slightly higher turbo speed

3.3 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

867th 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 i5-4300M benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-4300M performs better than the A8-6600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-6600K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-6600K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4300M.

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.