AMD A8-7600 vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

A8-7600 vs Athlon II X4 640 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon II X4 640 performs better than the A8-7600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-7600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A8-7600 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A8-7600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X4 640. The info from our database shows that the A8-7600 has more L2 cache than the Athlon II X4 640

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. Indeed, the A8-7600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.