The A8-7600 is slightly slower than the A10-6800K in SiSoftware’s memory bandwidth test, which is surprising since it previously managed to matched the A10-6800K with its clock speed disadvantage. Still, the A8-7600 was just 4% slower – hardly a significant margin.

Things turned around for the A8-7600 when measuring L1 and L2 cache bandwidth with Kaveri offering almost 50% more bandwidth than the A10-6800K.

Although the clock-to-clock results show that the A8-7600 is just 4% slower than the A10-6800K, we’re surprised it’s slower at all.

Likewise, it slipped behind the A10-6800K when testing with PowerPoint 2013, albeit by a 1% margin. Again, the thing is, we expected it to come out on top.

The A8-7600 had previously performed well in the 7-zip benchmark so it’s not surprising that it lead the A10-6800K by 6%.

Despite enjoying an easy win with 7-zip, the A8-7600 fell behind the A10-6800K by 4% in WinRAR.

The A8-7600 already took a beating from the A10-6800K in Photoshop CS6, and while the A8-7600 was only a second slower, the older Richland architecture was still quicker.

Clock-to-clock in InDesign CS6, the A8-7600 outperformed the A10-6800K by 15% at 8.10 seconds versus 9.28 seconds – a major improvement over the 37% disadvantage it had against the same chip at its stock speed.

The A8-7600 easily defeated the A10-6800K in After Effects CS6, taking just 244.8 seconds to complete the workload for an 11% lead.

The A8-7600 was clearly slower than A10-6800K in Illustrator CS6 at 7.69 seconds versus 6.89 seconds – a 12% gap.

The A8-7600 has an edge in HandBrake, however, delivering 5% more performance than the A10-6800K.

AMD’s latest APU was also 11% faster than the A10-6800K in the first pass and 24% faster in the second pass of x264 HD Benchmark 5.0.1.

The A8-7600 is obviously better optimized for encoding as it was 10% faster than the A10-6800K, taking 606 seconds instead of 669 seconds when converting a 1080p video from mkv to mpeg2.

Clock for clock, the idle consumption of the A10-6800K isn’t actually that much worse than the A8-7600 with the latter using just 5% less power.

That changed under load though as the A8-7600 consumed 10% less power than the A10-6800K.

With the CPU and GPU taxed, the A8-7600 used 18% less power than the A10-6800K.