AMD A8-7600 vs Intel Xeon X5450

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 4 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

$ 82.49
$ 59.01
$ 23.48 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1357 points
1492 points
9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2567 points
2733 points
6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1027 points
1143 points
11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points
1098 points
11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1150 points
1348 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

456 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
426 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1045 points
1123 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

429 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
389 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
3% slightly higher clock speed
3.00 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
84% significantly lower TDP
120 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
12 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

852nd of 1,089
810th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 July
2007 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
-

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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A8-7600 vs Xeon X5450 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the A8-7600 beats the Xeon X5450 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5450 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon X5450 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the A8-7600 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-7600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon X5450. A A8-7600 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5450 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Xeon X5450 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the A8-7600

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 A8-7600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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