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AMD A8 6600K Cpu
AMD A8 6600K
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AMD FX 6300 Cpu
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Intel Core i5 8400 Cpu
Intel Core i5 8400
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AMD is refreshing its desktop processors with Piledriver, an enhanced version of Bulldozer that focuses on improving instructions per clock and frequency -- just like it did...Read more
With several new product releases over the last few weeks, AMD has been on a mission to gain back market share. While Trinity targeted the entry level crowd with a well rounded family of APUs, their Vishera FX-series firmly targets an enthusiast niche that doesn’t need or want onboard graphics...Read more
Six Piledriver cores at 5GHz? Don't mind if I doRead more
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General

Processor socketFM2AM3+AM3+LGA 1151
Component forPCPCPCPC
Operating modes64-bit
  • 32-bit
  • 64-bit
  • 32-bit
  • 64-bit
64-bit

Processor

Clock speed3.9 GHz3.5 GHz3.3 GHz2.8 GHz
Number of cores4686
Thermal Design Power (TDP)100.0 W95.0 W95.0 W65.0 W
Processor lithography0.0 in0.0 in0.0 in0.0 in
Max turbo speed
N/A
3.8 GHz4.2 GHz4.0 GHz
Number of threads
N/A
686
Bus type
N/A
N/A
N/A
DMI3
Idle states
N/A
N/A
N/A
yes

Integrated Graphics

On-board graphics adapteryesnonoyes
TypeAMD Radeon HD 8570DNot available
N/A
Intel UHD Graphics 630
On-board graphics adapter base frequency
N/A
N/A
N/A
350.0 MHz
On-board graphics adapter DirectX version
N/A
N/A
N/A
12.0

Memory

Cache4 MB8 MB8 MB9 MB
Cache typeL2L3L2Smart Cache
Memory clock speeds supported by processor
N/A
1866.0 MHz
N/A
2666.0 MHz
Memory types supported by processor
N/A
DDR3 SDRAMDDR3 SDRAMDDR4 SDRAM
Memory channels
N/A
N/A
DualDual
Maximum internal memory supported by processor
N/A
N/A
N/A
64.0 GB
Memory bandwidth supported by processor (max)
N/A
N/A
N/A
41.6 GB/s

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