Intel Core i5-2410M vs AMD A8-5600K

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs AMD 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD A8-5600K

Price

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$ 42.12

$ 26.89 significantly less expensive

$ 69.01

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

950 points

4% slightly better overall score

908 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1767 points

1895 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

729 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

662 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

701 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

637 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

12.13 points

18.11 points

49% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

867 points

1047 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

450 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

439 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

851 points

1036 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

429 points

0.94% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

425 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

185% significantly lower TDP

100 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

967th of 1,089

979th of 1,089

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-2410M vs A8-5600K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-2410M beats the A8-5600K in overall performance. Despite this, the A8-5600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. A Core i5-2410M CPU outputs less heat than a A8-5600K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-2410M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.