AMD A8 6500

older Released June, 2013

3.5 GHz
Quad core

8.2 Out of 10 CPUBoss Score		AMD will be able to hit the 45W TDP with the, apparently, upcoming A8-6500T and A10-6700T APUs. by Scott-Michaud (Jul, 2013) Radeon HD 8650D GPU Clock 720 MHz 720 MHz GPU Boost Clock 844 MHz (???) 844 MHz (???) GPU Shader Count 256 384 TMU/ROP/Compute 16/8/4 24/8/4 It is impossible to know expected price, release window, or even whether the product still exists. by Scott-Michaud (Jul, 2013)

	Performance
	Benchmark performance using all cores
A8 6500 6.8 A6 6400K 5.8 Core i3 3240 6.5
PCMark 8 Home 3.0 Accelerated, PassMark and 1 more

	Single-core Performance
	Individual core benchmark performance
A8 6500 6.5 A6 6400K 6.5 Core i3 3240 6.7
PassMark (Single Core), Geekbench 3 Single Core and 1 more

	Integrated Graphics
	Integrated GPU performance for graphics
A8 6500 6.7 A6 6400K 5.9 Core i3 3240 4.7
Fire Strike

	Integrated Graphics (OpenCL)
	Integrated GPU performance for parallel computing
A8 6500 7.1 A6 6400K 7.1 Core i3 3240 5.9
CompuBench 1.5 Bitcoin mining and 4 more

	Performance per Watt
	How efficiently does the processor use electricity?
A8 6500 7.7 A6 6400K 7.4 Core i3 3240 7.9
Fire Strike, CompuBench 1.5 Bitcoin mining and 11 more

	Value
	Are you paying a premium for performance?
A8 6500 n.d. A6 6400K 8.0 Core i3 3240 5.8
Fire Strike, CompuBench 1.5 Bitcoin mining and 11 more

8.2	CPUBoss Score
	Combination of all six facets
A8 6500 8.2 A6 6400K 7.9 Core i3 3240 7.3

CompuBench 1.5 (Bitcoin mining) Data courtesy CompuBench

A8 6500
44.05 mHash/s

4.06 mHash/s

34.13 mHash/s

CompuBench 1.5 (T-Rex) Data courtesy CompuBench

A8 6500
0.4 fps

0.4 fps

n.d.

PCMark 8 Home 3.0 Accelerated Data courtesy FutureMark

A8 6500
2,477

2,269

2,364

Sky Diver Data courtesy FutureMark

A8 6500
2,778

943

2,157

Cloud Gate Data courtesy FutureMark

A8 6500
4,738

2,664

3,375

GeekBench 3 (Multi-core) Data courtesy Primate Labs

A8 6500
5,792

3,328

5,507

GeekBench 3 (Single core) Data courtesy Primate Labs

A8 6500
2,086

2,516

2,108

GeekBench 3 (AES single core) Data courtesy Primate Labs

A8 6500
2,230,000 MB/s

177,600 MB/s

2,380,000 MB/s

3

Jul

Oops: Leaked AMD APUs. A8-6500T and A10-6700T specs. Richland to hit 45W in quad-core APUs?

by Scott Michaud |

www.pcper.com

Tom's Hardware seemed to have slightly different information, their chart does not exactly jive with the one posted by MSI; for instance, they claimed the T suffix implied a low power variant when MSI's chart confirmed a 45W TDP... fairly loud and clear.

While common, the problem with rolling releases is the potential confusion over what has and what has not been released.

summary

Clock speed	3.5 GHz
Turbo clock speed	4.1 GHz
Cores	Quad core
Is unlocked	No

features

Has a NX bit	Yes
Has virtualization support	Yes
Instruction set extensions	ABM AES AMD-V AMD64 AVX AVX 1.1 BMI1 CVT16 F16C FMA3 FMA4 MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSE4.1 SSE4.2 SSE4a Supplemental SSE3 TBM XOP
Supports dynamic frequency scaling	Yes

power consumption

TDP	65W
Annual home energy cost	15.66 $/year
Annual commercial energy cost	56.94 $/year
Performance per watt	7.4 pt/W
Typical power consumption	52.81W

details

Architecture	x86-64
Threads	4 threads
L2 cache	4 MB
L2 cache per core	1 MB/core
L3 cache	None
Manufacture process	32 nm
Max CPUs	1
Operating temperature	Unknown - 71.3°C

overclocking

Overclocked clock speed	3.7 GHz
Overclocked clock speed (Water)	3.5 GHz
Overclocked clock speed (Air)	3.7 GHz

integrated graphics

GPU	GPU
Label	Radeon™ HD 8570D
Latest DirectX	11.0
GPU clock speed	800 MHz

memory controller

Memory controller	Built-in
Memory type	DDR3-1866

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