AMD A8-6600K vs Intel Pentium G4400

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

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Intel Pentium G4400

Price

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$ 118.02

$ 25.99

$ 92.03 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1366 points

9% slightly better overall score

1247 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2599 points

2702 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1031 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

892 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

989 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

855 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.74 points

39% slightly higher Blender score

13.46 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1128 points

1182 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

468 points

683 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1081 points

1158 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

680 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz

18% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

54 W

20% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

192 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

128 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

24.26 MiB

4752% significantly more L2 cache

0.5 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

848th of 1,089

884th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

A8-6600K vs Pentium G4400 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-6600K performs better than the Pentium G4400. Despite this, the Pentium G4400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the A8-6600K has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-6600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Pentium G4400. The info from our database shows that the A8-6600K has more L2 cache than the Pentium G4400

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.