Intel Core i7-6600U vs AMD A8-6600K

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 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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$ 2749.00

$ 118.02

$ 2630.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1166 points

1366 points

17% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2340 points

2599 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

858 points

1031 points

20% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

820 points

989 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23.09 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

18.74 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

2.6 GHz

3.9 GHz

49% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

4.2 GHz

23% 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

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

908th of 1,089

848th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7

A8-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-6600U vs A8-6600K comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-6600K performs better than the Core i7-6600U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6600U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A8-6600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6600U.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-6600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.