AMD A6-7400K vs AMD FX-9800P

Compare AMD A6-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs AMD 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

762 points

763 points

0.13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1703 points

18% slightly better gaming score

1432 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

536 points

581 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

513 points

559 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

9.28 points

17.61 points

89% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

743 points

1113 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

451 points

514 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

585 points

1121 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

408 points

495 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

29% slightly higher clock speed

2.7 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,015th of 1,089

1,014th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A6-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A6-7400K vs FX-9800P benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-9800P beats the A6-7400K in overall performance. Despite this, the A6-7400K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the FX-9800P has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A6-7400K has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the A6-7400K. Our comparison shows that the A6-7400K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-9800P. The info from our database shows that the FX-9800P has more L2 cache than the A6-7400K

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the A6-7400K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.