Intel Core i5-4460 vs AMD A8-9600

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD A8-9600

Price

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$ 64.04

$ 13.10

$ 50.94 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2038 points

42% slightly better overall score

1435 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3756 points

39% slightly better gaming score

2697 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1556 points

43% significantly better multitasking score

1088 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1494 points

43% significantly better heavy workload score

1044 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.05 points

109% significantly higher Blender score

19.59 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2935 points

115% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1359 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1032 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

569 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2954 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1498 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1068 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

611 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

3.20 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

Identical

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W

65 W

29% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

709th of 1,089

828th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5

A8-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

2017 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-4460 vs A8-9600 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-4460 performs better than the A8-9600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-9600 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-4460 has a slightly higher clock speed than the A8-9600. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The A8-9600 outputs less heat than Core i5-4460 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the A8-9600 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-4460

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. For instance, the Core i5-4460 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.