AMD A8-6500 vs AMD A8-9600

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD A8-9600

Price

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$ 284.69

$ 13.10

$ 271.59 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1387 points

1435 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2608 points

2697 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points

1088 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points

1044 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.09 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

19.59 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1350 points

1359 points

0.67% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

496 points

569 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1029 points

1498 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

438 points

611 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

20% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

843rd of 1,089

828th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June

2017 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A8-6500 vs A8-9600 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-9600 performs better than the A8-6500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-6500 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the A8-9600 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A8-6500 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-6500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the A8-9600. Also, the A8-6500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the A8-6500 has significantly more L2 cache than the A8-9600

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the A8-6500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.