Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 vs AMD PRO A8-8600B

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs AMD PRO A-Series A8 APU for Laptops 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

857 points

2% slightly better overall score

834 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1882 points

14% slightly better gaming score

1650 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

610 points

617 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

586 points

589 points

0.51% slightly better heavy workload score

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Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

566 points

982 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

346 points

411 points

18% slightly 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

3.62 GHz

126% significantly higher clock speed

1.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

990th of 1,089

994th of 1,089

Family

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Core

PRO A-Series A8 APU for Laptops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Core 2 Duo E7500 vs PRO A8-8600B benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core 2 Duo E7500 beats the PRO A8-8600B in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the PRO A8-8600B in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the PRO A8-8600B has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core 2 Duo E7500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the PRO A8-8600B. The PRO A8-8600B outputs less heat than Core 2 Duo E7500 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core 2 Duo E7500 has more L2 cache than the PRO A8-8600B

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. For instance, the Core 2 Duo E7500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.