Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 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

818 points
834 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1767 points
7% slightly better gaming score
1650 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

586 points
617 points
5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

563 points
589 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

615 points
982 points
59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

373 points
411 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
87% 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

6 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache
2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

999th of 1,089
994th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
PRO A-Series A8 APU for Laptops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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No

Core 2 Duo E8400 vs PRO A8-8600B benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the PRO A8-8600B performs better than the Core 2 Duo E8400. Despite this, the Core 2 Duo E8400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the PRO A8-8600B has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core 2 Duo E8400 has a significantly higher clock speed than the PRO A8-8600B. The PRO A8-8600B outputs less heat than Core 2 Duo E8400 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core 2 Duo E8400 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the PRO A8-8600B

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. For instance, the Core 2 Duo E8400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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