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AMD A8-6600K with Radeon HD 8570D

The AMD A8-6600K with Radeon HD 8570D is AMD’s A-Series (Richland) desktop processor with 4 cores and a boost clock of 4.2 GHz.

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Overview

The AMD A8-6600K with Radeon HD 8570D is AMD’s A-Series (Richland) desktop processor with 4 cores and a boost clock of 4.2 GHz. These are the manufacturer’s published figures. They describe what the chip is designed to do, not what your particular machine does with it, and the gap between those two is usually cooling. A boost clock is a ceiling rather than a promise, and how long a processor holds it under continuous load is the one thing no specification sheet can tell you.

Specifications

Cores
4

Physical cores. More helps sustained multi-threaded work, not single-task responsiveness.

Threads
4
Base clock
3.9 GHz

The floor the vendor guarantees under load. Often closer to reality than boost.

Boost clock
4.2 GHz

A ceiling, not a promise. How long a chip holds it is the thing a spec sheet cannot tell you.

L3 cache
Not verified
TDP
65 W

Design power, not measured draw. Where a range is shown, the manufacturer allows the laptop maker to choose within it, and the choice materially changes sustained performance.

Socket
FM2
Process
32 nm
Integrated graphics
AMD Radeon HD 8570D
Launched
Not verified

Sources

Each figure, the label its source printed beside it, and the day it was read.

FigureAs printedSourceChecked
Cores4# of CPU Coresamd.comSpecification page
Threads4# of Threadsamd.comSpecification page
Base clock3.9 GHzBase Clockamd.comSpecification page
Boost clock4.2 GHzMax. Boost Clockamd.comSpecification page
TDP65 WDefault TDPamd.comSpecification page
SocketFM2CPU Socketamd.comSpecification page
Process32 nmProcessor Technology for CPU Coresamd.comSpecification page
Integrated graphicsAMD Radeon HD 8570DGraphics Modelamd.comSpecification page

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Every figure on this sheet is a design target. None of it is a measurement.

Nothing above describes how a processor behaves twenty minutes into a sustained workload, which is where two chips with nearly identical specifications routinely diverge. A boost clock is a ceiling the vendor permits, not a rate the chip sustains, and whether it holds depends on the cooling, the case, the power profile and the room. None of those appear on a specification sheet.

We deliberately do not reduce these figures to a single score. A composite invented from specifications would look authoritative and measure nothing, and choosing the weights would be choosing the winner.