Intel Core i5 4460 vs AMD A8 7600

older Released May, 2014

Reasons to buy the Intel Core i5 4460

	Significantly newer manufacturing process 22 nm		Higher clock speed 3.2 GHz
	Higher Maximum operating temperature 72.72 °C

older Released July, 2014

Reasons to buy the AMD A8 7600

	Much more l2 cache 4 MB		Much more l2 cache per core 1 MB/core
	Significantly lower typical power consumption 52.81W		Significantly lower annual home energy cost 15.66 $/year

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Reasons to consider the
Intel Core i5 4460

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Significantly newer manufacturing process

22 nm

28 nm

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor

Higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

3.1 GHz

Around 5% higher clock speed

Higher Maximum operating temperature

72.72 °C

71.3 °C

Almost the same

Reasons to consider the
AMD A8 7600

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Much more l2 cache

4 MB

1 MB

4x more l2 cache; more data can be stored in the l2 cache for quick access later

Much more l2 cache per core

1 MB/core

0.25 MB/core

4x more l2 cache per core

Significantly lower typical power consumption

52.81W

68.25W

Around 25% lower typical power consumption

Significantly lower annual home energy cost

15.66 $/year

20.24 $/year

Around 25% lower annual home energy cost

Significantly lower annual commercial energy cost

56.94 $/year

73.58 $/year

Around 25% lower annual commercial energy cost

CompuBench 1.5 (Bitcoin mining) Data courtesy CompuBench

Core i5 4460

8.3 mHash/s

A8 7600

64.45 mHash/s

CompuBench 1.5 (T-Rex) Data courtesy CompuBench

Core i5 4460

1.01 fps

A8 7600

1.07 fps

PCMark 8 Home 3.0 Accelerated Data courtesy FutureMark

Core i5 4460

2,982

A8 7600

3,177

Sky Diver Data courtesy FutureMark

Core i5 4460

3,209

A8 7600

4,484

Cloud Gate Data courtesy FutureMark

Core i5 4460

6,176

A8 7600

5,957

GeekBench 3 (Multi-core) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Core i5 4460

9,739

A8 7600

6,014

GeekBench 3 (Single core) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Core i5 4460

3,086

A8 7600

2,062

GeekBench 3 (AES single core) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Core i5 4460

4,300,000 MB/s

A8 7600

1,970,000 MB/s

summary	Core i5 4460	A8 7600
Clock speed	3.2 GHz	3.1 GHz
Turbo clock speed	3.4 GHz	3.1 GHz
Cores	Quad core	Quad core
Is unlocked	No	No
features
Has a NX bit	Yes	Yes
Has virtualization support	Yes	Yes
Instruction set extensions
SSE4a
SSE2
F16C
MMX
SSE4
AVX
SSE3
EM64T
SSE
BMI1
AMD64
SSE4.1
FMA4
FMA3
SSE4.2
AMD-V
Supplemental SSE3
AES
TBM
AVX 2.0
memory controller
Memory controller	Built-in	Built-in
Memory type
DDR3-2133
DDR3-1600
DDR3-1333
Channels	Dual Channel	Dual Channel
Maximum bandwidth	25,600 MB/s	34,133.32 MB/s

details	Core i5 4460	A8 7600
L2 cache	1 MB	4 MB
L2 cache per core	0.25 MB/core	1 MB/core
Manufacture process	22 nm	28 nm
Operating temperature	Unknown - 72.72°C	Unknown - 71.3°C
integrated graphics
GPU	GPU	GPU
Label	Intel® HD Graphics 4600	Radeon™ R7
GPU clock speed	350 MHz	720 MHz
power consumption
TDP	84W	65W
Annual home energy cost	20.24 $/year	15.66 $/year
Annual commercial energy cost	73.58 $/year	56.94 $/year
Performance per watt	9.64 pt/W	8.09 pt/W
Typical power consumption	68.25W	52.81W

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Comments

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Nenad Novakovic (11:36 PM, June 2, 2017)

http://www.game-debate.com/cpu/index.php?pid=2076&pid2=1980&compare=Intel

Aaron Dumas (10:29 PM, May 28, 2017)

This A8 is a pretty solid APU to mount a budget rig, but i don't recomend you put 16GB of RAM in a PC like yours (If you already has 8GB in just one RAM module, them change it for 2 of 4GB, or just put another 4GB with THE SAME SPECS you already has and be with 12 in Hybrid dual channel; that will be MUCH MORE than sufficient for ANYTHING for next 2~4 years). If you wanna do an upgrade, change your GPU for some on the line of RX 570 or maybe 580 if your PSU is capable enough. The 7600 can use a lot of this cards without bottleneck them.

Clyde Lina (08:46 PM, May 2, 2017)

i have the amd a8-7600 processor with 8gb ram and r7 240 graphics... i get 60ps on high settings. if i get another 8gb ram then upgrade my vram. am i gonna be experiencing any problem at all?

Dogepowers (02:59 AM, September 8, 2016)

gadgety The core I5 is a $200+ processor, while the AMD-7600 is 60-80

Knoodlesguy (07:53 PM, November 25, 2015)

As an owner of both of these CPUs, and using both daily for gaming (bedroom and living room gaming) I can say all of this is truly correct. In single core tests the A8 loses, I know because Guild Wars, made on directx 9 uses single cores more and the I5 does great for Guild Wars. Now when we look at Metro Lastlight Redux, They perform VERY similar. Cudos to CPUBOSS, this is the first time I've ever seen this site give AMD the respect and win in a close match up.

Trit Dx Kasyap (03:08 PM, August 25, 2015)

A8 7600 is good in gaming

Guest (12:38 PM, July 31, 2015)

So the Core i5 4460 is 29% better when using all cores in Passmark, and 25% better in single core. The i5 uses 31% more electrical energy. Based on the price links here the i5 costs 71% more than the A8-7600, yet CPU Boss deems the i5 equal value? How is that explained? Get max 30% better CPU performance for 71% more money. Furthermore, in my country the Core i5 4460 is 137% more expensive.

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