AMD A6-9500 vs AMD A8-5600K

AMD A6-9500
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3500 MHz / Cores: 2 / Sep 2016
AMD A6-9500
AMD A8-5600K
AMD Socket FM2DESKTOP
3600 MHz / Cores: 4 / Oct 2012
AMD A8-5600K

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD A6-9500
    100%
  • AMD A8-5600K
    153%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD A6-9500
    100%
  • AMD A8-5600K
    108%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD A6-9500
    100%
  • AMD A8-5600K
    198%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD A6-9500

This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).

Reasons to consider AMD A8-5600K

8% higher single threaded performance.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 98% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
Around 53% higher average synthetic performance.

AMD A8-5600K

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD A8-5600K

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD A8-5600K

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD A8-5600K

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

AMD A6-9500AMD A8-5600K
MMX
3DNow!
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSE4A
AMD64
CnQ
NX bit
AMD-V

Architecture

AMD A6-9500AMD A8-5600K
ArchitectureAMD ExcavatorvsAMD Piledriver
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR3
CodenameBristol RidgevsTrinity
Release DateSep 2016vsOct 2012

Cores

AMD A6-9500AMD A8-5600K
Cores2vs4
Threads2vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon R5vsRadeon HD 7560D

Cache

AMD A6-9500AMD A8-5600K
L1 Cache128 KB (per core)vs128 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs1024 KB (per core)
L3 Cache0 KBvs0 KB

Physical

AMD A6-9500AMD A8-5600K
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsAMD Socket FM2
Max Case Tempunknownvs74°C
PackageuPGAvsuPGA
Die Sizeunknownvs246mm²
Process14 nmvs32 nm

Performance

AMD A6-9500AMD A8-5600K
Cpu Frequency3500 MHzvs3600 MHz
Turbo Clock3800 MHzvs3900 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltageunknownvs1.475 V
TDP65 Wvs100 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD A6-9500
    2622 points
  • AMD A8-5600K
    2379 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD A6-9500
    4202 points
  • AMD A8-5600K
    7202 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD A6-9500 (simulated)
    80.52
  • AMD A8-5600K
    87

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD A6-9500 (simulated)
    146.91
  • AMD A8-5600K
    292

points - higher is better