AMD A8-6600K vs AMD PRO A8-8670E

A8-6600K vs PRO A8-8670E comparison

In our benchmarks, the PRO A8-8670E beats the A8-6600K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-6600K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the PRO A8-8670E has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the A8-6600K that 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 PRO A8-8670E. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the A8-6600K has significantly more L2 cache than the PRO A8-8670E

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the A8-6600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.