Intel Core i5-10400F vs AMD A8-7600

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i5 6 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 169.95
$ 82.49
$ 87.46 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4847 points
257% significantly better overall score
1357 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6648 points
158% significantly better gaming score
2567 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4269 points
315% significantly better multitasking score
1027 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4133 points
319% significantly better heavy workload score
986 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

111.48 points
518% significantly higher Blender score
18.02 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5783 points
402% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1150 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1414 points
210% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
456 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5782 points
453% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1045 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1454 points
238% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
429 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
200% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
200% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz
3.1 GHz
6% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
13% slightly higher turbo speed
3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB
4 MiB
166% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

359th of 1,089
852nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i5
A8-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2014 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-10400F vs A8-7600 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10400F beats the A8-7600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-7600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-10400F has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the A8-7600 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the A8-7600. Our comparison shows that the A8-7600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10400F. Despite this, the Core i5-10400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the A8-7600 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-10400F

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 i5-10400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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