AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs AMD A8-6600K

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 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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AMD A8-6600K

Price

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$ 58.40

$ 59.62 significantly less expensive

$ 118.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4496 points

229% significantly better overall score

1366 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6035 points

132% significantly better gaming score

2599 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points

287% significantly better multitasking score

1031 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3874 points

291% significantly better heavy workload score

989 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.47 points

436% significantly higher Blender score

18.74 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4485 points

297% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1128 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1048 points

123% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

468 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4641 points

329% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1081 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1085 points

139% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

453 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

3.9 GHz

21% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.2 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB

200% significantly more L1 cache

192 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

24.26 MiB

708% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

390th of 1,089

848th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

A8-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 1600 vs A8-6600K specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 1600 performs better than the A8-6600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-6600K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 1600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the A8-6600K has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the A8-6600K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A8-6600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 1600. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the A8-6600K has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 1600

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 Ryzen 5 1600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.