AMD A6-Series A6-8570 2-core AM4

The A6-8570 scores 1902 on PassMark multi-core, which puts it at the 25th percentile in our database. That's bad. It's a dual-core chip at 65W TDP in a world where six cores is the floor, and the CAD 190 asking price makes it a genuinely poor value. Only buy this if you have an AM4 board and literally no other options.

Let's talk about those PassMark numbers, because they tell the whole story. The A6-8570 scores 1902 multi-core and 1603 single-core. For context, that multi-core score sits at the 25th percentile in our database, meaning 75% of desktop CPUs we've tested outperform it. The single-core result is better at the 38th percentile, but that's still below average. The 3.5GHz base clock and 4.4GHz boost sound okay on paper until you remember there are only two cores doing all the work.

The efficiency story is just as rough. A 65W TDP for a dual-core chip in 2025 is like a car that gets worse gas mileage than a pickup truck while having the cargo space of a motorcycle. Our efficiency ranking puts it at the 30th percentile, and that's being kind. The 8MB of L3 cache helps a little with everyday tasks, but the 1.25MB of L2 cache is thin. The integrated UHD Graphics with 48 execution units will handle desktop duties and maybe some very old games, but the 31.8 out of 100 gaming score tells you this isn't a machine for anything beyond solitaire and YouTube.

Stacked against the competition, the A6-8570 is in rough shape. The Intel Core Ultra 9 285K isn't even a fair fight, that chip scores in the top percentiles across the board while this one struggles to crack the 40th percentile in anything except platform compatibility. Even the be quiet! Ryzen 3 Dark Rock Pro 5, which is a cooler and not even a CPU, probably does more for your system's performance by letting a better chip run cooler. The PC Server and Parts E5-2697 v2-cr is an old server chip, but its multi-core performance would still crush the A6-8570 in threaded workloads despite being ancient by modern standards. The real takeaway is that this chip only makes sense if you're locked into AM4 with no budget for anything better, and even then, a used Ryzen 3 1200 would run circles around it for less money.

Pricing is tricky here since we only see one listing at CAD 190, and that's a tough sell. For that kind of money in the Canadian market, you're dangerously close to used Ryzen 3 or even Ryzen 5 territory, and those chips will absolutely embarrass the A6-8570 in every benchmark we track. The affordability ranking of 63rd percentile sounds okay until you realize it's being compared against other budget chips, not against what that money could actually buy you on the used market. If this were CAD 50, we'd call it a reasonable way to revive an old AM4 board. At CAD 190, it's a hard pass unless you're in a very specific situation where you need AM4 compatibility and literally nothing else matters.

The AMD A6-8570 lands at the 25th percentile for multi-thread performance in our database, which is a polite way of saying this thing gets lapped by nearly everything else on the shelf. A PassMark multi-core score of 1902 puts it firmly in budget territory, and honestly, even calling it a budget chip feels generous when you look at what a modern $100 processor can do. The single-core score of 1603 is a bit more respectable at the 38th percentile, but that's still the kind of number that makes spreadsheets sigh heavily.

Where this chip does claw back some ground is platform compatibility. Socket AM4 means you can drop it into a huge range of older motherboards, and the 73rd percentile platform ranking reflects that flexibility. If you've got an aging AM4 board sitting around and just need something to make it boot, the A6-8570 technically does that. But at 65W TDP for two cores, you're paying a real efficiency tax for very little compute in return.

Skip this if you care about literally any performance metric. The 25th percentile multi-thread score means even basic multitasking will feel sluggish compared to any modern budget chip. Gamers should absolutely look elsewhere, the 31.8 gaming score is a non-starter. Productivity users will hate the 32.2 productivity score. And if you're building a new system, the CAD 190 price is absurd when a used Ryzen 3 or even a new budget Intel chip will destroy this thing in every benchmark. The only person who should consider this is someone with a dead AM4 system and a strict need to spend as little as possible just to get it booting again.

The AMD A6-8570 is a chip for a very specific person: someone with an AM4 motherboard, no budget for a real upgrade, and expectations set somewhere around 'I just need it to turn on.' The 25th percentile multi-thread performance and 30th percentile efficiency tell you everything you need to know. It's not a good value at CAD 190, it's not good for gaming, and it's not good for productivity. The only thing it does well is fit in an AM4 socket. If that's genuinely all you need, fine. But for almost everyone else, save your money and buy something used that actually performs.