AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs AMD A10-7850K

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD A10-Series APU for Desktops 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD A10-7850K

Price

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$ 99.99

$ 35.00 significantly less expensive

$ 134.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4361 points

224% significantly better overall score

1343 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5968 points

134% significantly better gaming score

2540 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3844 points

278% significantly better multitasking score

1015 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3721 points

282% significantly better heavy workload score

973 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.27 points

551% significantly higher Blender score

16.30 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4788 points

199% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1597 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1132 points

116% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

523 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4891 points

330% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1137 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1163 points

159% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

449 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

3.4 GHz

3.7 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

4 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB

125% significantly more L1 cache

256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

4 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

404th of 1,089

860th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

A10-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April

2014 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 2600 vs A10-7850K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 2600 is faster than the A10-7850K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-7850K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 2600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the A10-7850K has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the A10-7850K. With our hardware info, we find that the A10-7850K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 2600. A Ryzen 5 2600 CPU outputs less heat than a A10-7850K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the A10-7850K has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 2600

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 Ryzen 5 2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.