AMD A8-5600K vs AMD FX-9830P

Compare AMD 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

908 points

1362 points

49% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1895 points

2574 points

35% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

662 points

1031 points

55% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

637 points

990 points

55% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1047 points

1621 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

439 points

636 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1036 points

1465 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

425 points

613 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

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Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

979th of 1,089

849th of 1,089

A8-5600K vs FX-9830P benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-9830P performs better than the A8-5600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5600K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the FX-9830P has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A8-5600K has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads.

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. Indeed, the A8-5600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.