Intel Core i7-11700K vs AMD A8-6500

Core i7-11700K vs A8-6500 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-11700K performs better than the A8-6500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-6500 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-11700K has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the A8-6500 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the A8-6500. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the A8-6500. Also, the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The A8-6500 outputs less heat than Core i7-11700K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache

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 i7-11700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.