Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 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

862 points

3% slightly better overall score

834 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1899 points

15% slightly better gaming score

1650 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

611 points

617 points

0.98% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

587 points

589 points

0.34% slightly better heavy workload score

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Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

638 points

982 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

392 points

411 points

4% 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

3.17 GHz

97% 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

987th 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

2008 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Core 2 Duo E8500 vs PRO A8-8600B comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the PRO A8-8600B is faster than the Core 2 Duo E8500. Despite this, the Core 2 Duo E8500 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core 2 Duo E8500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the PRO A8-8600B. In terms of cache, the Core 2 Duo E8500 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 E8500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.