AMD A6-9500 vs AMD Athlon II X2 245

Compare AMD A6-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs AMD 2 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

790 points

0.25% slightly better overall score

788 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1734 points

1% slightly better gaming score

1715 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

567 points

0.53% slightly better multitasking score

564 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

550 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

541 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

12.14 points

114% significantly higher Blender score

5.65 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

957 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

518 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

641 points

113% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

300 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

20% slightly higher clock speed

2.9 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

Identical

1 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,006th of 1,089

1,008th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A6-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A6-9500 vs Athlon II X2 245 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A6-9500 is faster than the Athlon II X2 245. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X2 245 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A6-9500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X2 245. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the A6-9500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.