AMD A8-6600K vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 118.02
$ 17.30 slightly less expensive
$ 135.32

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1366 points
6267 points
358% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2599 points
8333 points
220% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1031 points
5604 points
443% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

989 points
5431 points
449% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.74 points
150.92 points
705% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1128 points
8330 points
638% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

468 points
1980 points
323% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1081 points
8600 points
695% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points
2052 points
352% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
6
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz
11% slightly higher clock speed
3.50 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
4.4 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

192 KiB
384 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

24.26 MiB
708% significantly more L2 cache
3 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

848th of 1,089
237th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

A8-6600K vs Ryzen 5 5600 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600 performs better than the A8-6600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-6600K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 5600 has significantly more cores than the A8-6600K. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600 has 6 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A8-6600K. It also has more threads than the A8-6600K. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-6600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the A8-6600K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5600

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.

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