Intel Core i3-8145U vs AMD A8-6600K

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD A8-6600K

Price

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$ 1551.00

$ 118.02

$ 1432.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1258 points

1366 points

8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2455 points

2599 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

936 points

1031 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

895 points

989 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23.95 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

18.74 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1575 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1128 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

794 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

468 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

3.9 GHz

85% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

4.2 GHz

7% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

128 KiB

192 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB

24.26 MiB

4752% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

880th of 1,089

848th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i3

A8-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-8145U vs A8-6600K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the A8-6600K beats the Core i3-8145U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-8145U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A8-6600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-8145U. The info from our database shows that the A8-6600K has more L2 cache than the Core i3-8145U

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. Indeed, the Core i3-8145U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.