Conclusion

In the past few months we had a strong focus on CPU gaming performance comparisons with Intel processors. Therefore it's more than just about time, that we take a closer look at some AMD CPUs. In this particular case, we're having a closer look at the performance differences of AMDs A10-5800K as well as A10-6800K. If you followed our earlier CPU gaming performance comparison articles, you will have noticed, that usually the differences were very small.

A closer look at the performance figures reveals that at standard clock speeds and low resolutions, the AMD A10-6800K is about 4.4 percent faster than the predecessor AMD A10-5800K. Overclocked to 4.5 GHz, the A10-6800K is about 3.2 percent faster than then A10-5800K. Once we change to high resolutions, we see that the differences get very small. At standard clock speeds we see 1 percent difference and at 4.5 GHz the difference is a mere 0.65 percent. The story becomes a bit more interesting, when we have a look at power consumption. Although at stock clocks there is almost no measurable difference, but at least at 4.5 GHz we see that the A10-6800K is quite a bit more efficient.

Once more we see with the comparison, that gaming performance really doesn't depend on the CPU. The most important piece of hardware in your setup is definitely the graphics card. If you thought about upgrading from a A10-5800K to a A10-6800K to get some more frames per second, there really is no need for that. The differences are simply tiny.

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