Is the AMD A8-5600K dual core?

[anthony_greene]

I have an AMD A8-5600K clocked at 4.3ghz, so I'm thinking it's dual core. I have a GTX 950 in my machine so what would you recommend I upgrade to?

 

[rgd1101]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/a10-5800k-a8-5600k-a6-5400k,3224.html
4 cores. and what the motherboard make and model?

 

[anthony_greene]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/a10-5800k-a8-5600k-a6-5400k,3224.html
4 cores. and what the motherboard make and model?

It's an Asus A55BM-Plus

 

[rgd1101]

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/A55BMPLUS/HelpDesk_CPU/
with a bios update, AMD A10-7890K (FM2+, AD789KXDI44JC, rev.A1, 4.1GHz, L2:2M, 95W)

 

[Ecky]

I would not get the 7890K if you're running with a discrete GPU. Better to get an Athlon x4 860K or 880K, it's the same CPU but much cheaper because the integrated GPU (which you won't use) is disabled.

 

[anthony_greene]

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/A55BMPLUS/HelpDesk_CPU/
with a bios update, AMD A10-7890K (FM2+, AD789KXDI44JC, rev.A1, 4.1GHz, L2:2M, 95W)

Any room for intel at all?

 

[Multipack]

Is it true that quad-core AMD's are more like dual-core hyper-threaded Intel CPU's?

 

[rgd1101]

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/A55BMPLUS/HelpDesk_CPU/
with a bios update, AMD A10-7890K (FM2+, AD789KXDI44JC, rev.A1, 4.1GHz, L2:2M, 95W)

Any room for intel at all?

no. wrong brand, wrong socket. Might do what Ecky said if your system have a dGPU

 

[anthony_greene]

Is it true that quad-core AMD's are more like dual-core hyper-threaded Intel CPU's?

So yes?

 

[Ecky]

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/A55BMPLUS/HelpDesk_CPU/
with a bios update, AMD A10-7890K (FM2+, AD789KXDI44JC, rev.A1, 4.1GHz, L2:2M, 95W)

Any room for intel at all?

An Intel CPU would not fit in an AMD motherboard; you'd need a new board too.

AMD quad cores are arguably somewhat like Intel dual cores with hyperthreading, though it's a little different. I was surprised with Ian Cutress of Anandtech recently started referring to AMD "quads" as 2-core 4-thread CPUs. AMD CPUs have modules, which each have two "cores" in them, which share resources. When both cores are active, they compete for resources and thus are not as fast as two cores that don't have to share resources. Hyperthreading, by contrast, runs a second thread on the same core, utilizing unused parts to get some extra throughput from it.