AMD A8-6600K vs Intel Core i7-920

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 i7-920

Price

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$ 118.02

$ 99.95

$ 18.07 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1366 points

1474 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2599 points

4% slightly better gaming score

2489 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1031 points

1179 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

989 points

1132 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.74 points

31.28 points

66% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1128 points

1489 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

468 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

419 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1081 points

1431 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

415 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz

39% slightly higher clock speed

2.79 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

43% significantly higher turbo speed

2.93 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

100% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

24.26 MiB

203% significantly more L2 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

848th of 1,089

814th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A8-6600K vs Core i7-920 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-920 beats the A8-6600K in overall performance. Despite this, the A8-6600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-920 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the A8-6600K that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the A8-6600K. Our comparison shows that the A8-6600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-920. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the A8-6600K has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-920

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.