AMD A6-5400K vs A8-5600K
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AMD A6-5400K advantages
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AMD A8-5600K advantages
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A6-5400K vs A8-5600K performance comparison
The charts in the table below demonstrate relative performance of A6-5400K and A8-5600K processors in several different types of tasks. The numbers for 'Single-threaded performance', 'Multi-threaded performance' and 'Integrated Graphics performance' charts are calculated as an average of several related benchmarks, that you can see in the "Benchmarks" tab. As such, performance in individual benchmarks may be higher or lower than what you see in the charts on this page. The 'Overall performance' chart displays an average of all-around performance benchmarks, and benchmarks, specific to each type of program. The 'Price-performance ratio' calculates how much more performance you will get per dollar spent. This ratio does not take into account the cost of other system components. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Complete list of benchmarks, that show difference in performance between A6-5400K and AMD A8-5600K in various types of applications, can be seen in the "Benchmarks" tab.
A6-5400K vs A8-5600K power consumption and price comparison
Lower is better |
Lower is better |
Detailed side by side comparison of AMD A6-5400K vs AMD A8-5600K specs can be found in the "Specifications" tab. Much more detailed comparison of low level features of both microprocessors is located in the "CPUIDs" tab.
Pros and Cons summary
| A6-5400K | A8-5600K |
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General recommendations: More energy efficient,
Somewhat cheaper, Somewhat better price / performance ratio |
General recommendations: Faster in all kinds of tasks,
Performs somewhat better in graphics programs and games |
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Drawbacks: Performs somewhat worse in all types of tasks,
Worse performance in graphics applications |
Drawbacks: Less energy efficient,
Significantly more expensive, Somewhat worse price / performance ratio |
Similar processors
| A6-5400K | A8-5600K |
Similar CPUs use the same socket and architecture as AMD A6-5400K and AMD A8-5600K, but their performance and other characteristics are a bit different.
Specifications
| AMD A6-5400K | AMD A8-5600K | |
| Basic details | ||
| Market segment | Desktop | |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | AMD | |
| Family | AMD A6-Series | AMD A8-Series |
| Model number | A6-5400K | A8-5600K |
| CPU part number | AD540KOKA23HJ | AD560KWOA44HJ |
| Box part number | AD540KOKHJBOX | AD560KWOHJBOX |
| Introduction date | August 31, 2012 | October 2, 2012 |
| Current official price | $57 (as of Apr 2013) | $91 (as of Apr 2013) |
| CPU features | ||
| Core name | Trinity | |
| Platform name | Virgo | |
| Microarchitecture | Piledriver | |
| Technology (micron) | 0.032 | |
| Data width (bits) | 64 | |
| Socket | Socket FM2 | |
| Frequency (MHz) | 3600 | |
| Turbo Frequency (MHz) | 3800 | 3900 |
| L1 cache | 64 KB (code) / 32 KB (data) | 128 KB (code) / 64 KB (data) |
| L2 cache (KB) | 1024 | 4096 |
| Max temperature (°C) | 70 | 74 |
| TDP (Watt) | 65 | 100 |
| Core voltage (V) | 0.825 - 1.475 | |
| Cores | 2 | 4 |
| Threads | 2 | 4 |
| Multiprocessing | 1 | |
| Instruction set extensions | ||
| AES / Advanced Encryption Standard | + | |
| AMD64 / EM64T 64-bit technology | + | |
| AVX / Advanced Vector Extensions | + | |
| F16C / 16-bit Floating-Point conversion | + | |
| FMA3 / 3-operand Fused Multiply-Add | + | |
| FMA4 / 4-operand Fused Multiply-Add | + | |
| MMX | + | |
| SSE | + | |
| SSE2 | + | |
| SSE3 | + | |
| SSE4.1 | + | |
| SSE4.2 | + | |
| SSSE3 / Supplemental SSE3 | + | |
| XOP / eXtended Operations | + | |
| Supported technologies | ||
| PowerNow! / Enhanced SpeedStep | + | |
| Turbo Core / Turbo Boost | + | |
| Unlocked multiplier | + | |
| Virtualization | + | |
| Virus Protection / Execute Disable bit | + | |
| Integrated Graphics | ||
| GPU Type | Radeon HD 7540D | Radeon HD 7560D |
| Shader cores | 192 | 256 |
| Base frequency (MHz) | 760 | |
| Integrated Memory Controller(s) | ||
| The number of controllers | 1 | |
| Memory channels | 2 | |
| Supported memory | DDR3-1866 | |
Rows with different specifications or features are highlighted.
For detailed specifications of "AMD A6-5400K" or "AMD A8-5600K" parts please click on the links in the table header.
Benchmarks
System setup
Below is a complete set of AMD A6-5400K and A8-5600K benchmarks from our CPU benchmark database. Both microprocessors were tested on ASRock FM2A75 Pro4-M motherboard with 4GB dual-channel Crucial BallistixPC3-14900 (DDR3-1866) memory, and Integrated on-chip ATI Radeon 7000-series graphics.
All tests were performed at default frequency and voltage, using manufacturer's stock fan/heatsink. None of the components were overclocked. Motherboard BIOS options were left at default settings.
The results of all benchmarks are broken into four categories: multi-threaded, single-threaded, memory intensive and graphics / gaming.
A6-5400K vs A8-5600K single-threaded benchmarks
Single-threaded benchmarks run on a single CPU core, and do not depend on such features as the number of cores, or Hyper-Threading technology. Additionally, they do not utilize on-chip caches, dedicated to other cores.
AMD A6-5400K AMD A8-5600K | ||
3DMark03 CPU score benchmark | ||
Longer is better  | ||
|---|---|---|
| 100% | ||
| 88.0% | ||
CINEBENCH R10 CPU score (1 core) benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 96.2% | ||
FLAC encoding - single process benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 98.7% | ||
H.264 video encoding - single process benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 97.9% | ||
LAME MP3 encoding - single process benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 97.8% | ||
AMD A6-5400K AMD A8-5600K | ||
PCMark2002 CPU score benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 97.3% | ||
Super PI (1M) benchmark | ||
 Shorter is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 94.0% | ||
XVid video encoding - single process benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 97.1% | ||
A6-5400K vs A8-5600K multi-threaded benchmarks
Multi-threaded benchmarks utilize all CPU cores and other on-chip resources (on-chip caches, internal buffers, etc). Intel's Hyper-Threading feature also helps to improve multi-threading performance.
AMD A6-5400K AMD A8-5600K | ||
3DMark06 CPU score benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
|---|---|---|
| 100% | ||
| 53.7% | ||
Apache web server - dynamic pages benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 87.6% | ||
Apache web server - static pages benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 64.6% | ||
Blowfish encryption benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 46.9% | ||
CINEBENCH R10 CPU score benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 51.8% | ||
AMD A6-5400K AMD A8-5600K | ||
CINEBENCH R10 render time (seconds) benchmark | ||
| Shorter is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 51.9% | ||
CrystalMark ALU benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 50.4% | ||
CrystalMark FPU benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 48.0% | ||
Euler3D benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 51.9% | ||
FLAC encoding - multiple processes benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 48.4% | ||
AMD A6-5400K AMD A8-5600K | ||
Fritz Chess Benchmark benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 48.7% | ||
H.264 video encoding - multiple processes benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 48.3% | ||
H.264 video encoding - multithreaded benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 59.6% | ||
LAME MP3 encoding - multiple processes benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 48.5% | ||
MySQL 5.0.96 - selecting data benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 52.9% | ||
AMD A6-5400K AMD A8-5600K | ||
PCMark05 CPU score benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 77.1% | ||
PCMark05 score benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 78.7% | ||
Sandra Dhrystone (MIPS) benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 48.9% | ||
Sandra MultiMedia Floating Point (it/s) benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 49.9% | ||
Sandra MultiMedia Integer (it/s) benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 48.6% | ||
AMD A6-5400K AMD A8-5600K | ||
Sandra Whetstone (MFLOPS) benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 50.3% | ||
Sandra Whetstone SSE2 (MFLOPS) benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 49.2% | ||
XVid video encoding - multiple processes benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 48.4% | ||
wPrime v1.55 (32M) benchmark | ||
| Shorter is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 49.7% | ||
A6-5400K vs A8-5600K graphics benchmarks
Graphics benchmarks depend on the type of integrated or discrete graphics adapter, and to less extent on the processor performance. Because these benchmarks are synthetic, they may not truly represent gaming performance. However, they still can used to estimate whether one processor will perform faster or slower in games than another CPU.
AMD A6-5400K AMD A8-5600K | ||
3DMark03 game score benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
|---|---|---|
| 100% | ||
| 76.5% | ||
3DMark06 3DMark score benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 72.6% | ||
3DMark2001 score benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 90.5% | ||
CINEBENCH R10 OpenGL score benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 90.1% | ||
PCMark05 Graphics score benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 80.4% | ||
A6-5400K vs A8-5600K memory performance
Memory-intensive tests or programs move large amounts of data to/from memory, and they depend more on memory throughput and the size of on-chip caches, rather than on CPU integer/FP/SIMD performance.
AMD A6-5400K AMD A8-5600K | ||
7Zip compressing/decompressing speed benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
|---|---|---|
| 100% | ||
| 96.2% | ||
CrystalMark Memory benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 63.1% | ||
PCMark05 Memory score benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 95.4% | ||
PCMark2002 Memory score benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 69.4% | ||
WinRAR compressing/decompressing speed benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 60.3% | ||
CPUIDs
The table below compares two random CPUID records for AMD A6-5400K and AMD A8-5600K microprocessors, that were submitted to our CPUID database.
| CPUID 1 | CPUID 2 | |
| Manufacturer | AMD | |
|---|---|---|
| CPU Family | A6-Series | A8-Series |
| Model / Processor Number | A6-5400K | A8-5600K |
| Frequency | 3593 MHz | |
| CWID version | 0.4 | |
| Part number | AD540KOKA23HJ | AD560KWOA44HJ |
| S-Spec / Stepping Code | GA 1237SUT | GA 1235SUT |
| General information | ||
| Vendor | AuthenticAMD | |
| Processor name (BIOS) | AMD A6-5400K APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics | AMD A8-5600K APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics |
| Cores | AMD Turion(tm) X2 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile ZM-00 | 4 |
| Compute units | 2 | |
| Logical processors | 1 | 4 |
| Processor type | 2 | Original OEM Processor |
| Core stepping | Original OEM Processor | TN-A1 |
| CPUID signature | TN-A1 | 610F01 |
| Family | 610F01 | 21 (015h) |
| Model | 21 (015h) | 16 (010h) |
| Stepping | 16 (010h) | 1 (01h) |
| Socket | 1 (01h) | FM2 |
| Socket | FM2 | |
| Cache | ||
| L1 data: Associativity | 4-way set associative | |
| L1 data: Line size | 64 bytes | |
| L1 data: Lines per tag | 1 | |
| L1 data: Size | 2 x 16 KB | 4 x 16 KB |
| L1 instruction: Associativity | 2-way set associative | |
| L1 instruction: Comments | 1 cache per 2 cores | |
| L1 instruction: Line size | 64 bytes | |
| L1 instruction: Lines per tag | 1 | |
| L1 instruction: Size | 64 KB | 2 x 64 KB |
| L2: Associativity | 16-way set associative | |
| L2: Comments | 1 cache per 2 cores | |
| L2: Line size | 64 bytes | |
| L2: Lines per tag | 1 | |
| L2: Size | 1 MB | 2 x 2 MB |
| Instruction set extensions | ||
| AES | + | |
| AMD extensions to MMX | + | |
| AVX | + | |
| BMI | + | |
| F16C | + | |
| FMA | + | |
| FMA4 | + | |
| MMX | + | |
| SSE | + | |
| SSE2 | + | |
| SSE3 | + | |
| SSE4.1 | + | |
| SSE4.2 | + | |
| SSE4A | + | |
| SSSE3 | + | |
| TBM | + | |
| XOP | + | |
| Additional instructions | ||
| Advanced Bit manipulation | + | |
| CLFLUSH | + | |
| CMOV | + | |
| CMPXCHG16B | + | |
| CMPXCHG8B | + | |
| FXSAVE/FXRSTORE | + | |
| MONITOR/MWAIT | + | |
| PCLMULDQ | + | |
| POPCNT | + | |
| PREFETCH/PREFETCHW | + | |
| RDTSCP | + | |
| SKINIT / STGI support | + | |
| SYSCALL/SYSRET | + | |
| SYSENTER/SYSEXIT | + | |
| XSAVE / XRESTORE states | + | |
| Major features | ||
| 64-bit / Intel 64 | + | |
| NX bit/XD-bit | + | |
| On-chip Floating Point Unit | + | |
| PowerNow! / Cool'n'Quiet | + | |
| Secure Virtual Machine (Virtualization) | + | |
| Turbo Core | + | |
| Other features | ||
| 1 GB large page support | + | |
| 100MHz multiplier control | + | |
| 128-bit SSE instructions | + | |
| 36-bit page-size extensions | + | |
| Advanced programmable interrupt controller | + | |
| Core multi-processing legacy mode | + | |
| Debugging extensions | + | |
| Extended APIC space | + | |
| Hardware P-state control | + | |
| Hardware thermal control | + | |
| Instruction based sampling | + | |
| LAHF / SAHF support in 64-bit mode | + | |
| LBR virtualization | + | |
| LOCK MOV CR0 means MOV CR8 | + | |
| Lightweight profiling support | + | |
| Machine check architecture | + | |
| Machine check exception | + | |
| Memory-type range registers | + | |
| Misaligned SSE mode | + | |
| Model-specific registers | + | |
| Nested page tables | + | |
| OS visible workaround | + | |
| Page attribute table | + | |
| Page global extension | + | |
| Page-size extensions (4MB pages) | + | |
| Physical address extensions | + | |
| SVM lock | + | |
| Support for NRIP save | + | |
| THERMTRIP | + | |
| TSC rate is ensured to be invariant across all states | + | |
| Temperature sensor | + | |
| Time stamp counter | + | |
| Virtual 8086-mode enhancements | + | |
| Watchdog timer support | + | |
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