AMD A8-7600 vs AMD Athlon Silver 7120U

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs AMD Athlon 7000 Series 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

1357 points

4% slightly better overall score

1294 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2567 points

2824 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1027 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

923 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

886 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.02 points

89% significantly higher Blender score

9.49 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1045 points

1563 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

429 points

942 points

119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

29% slightly higher clock speed

2.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

Identical

256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

868th of 1,111

888th of 1,111

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

Athlon 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

A8-7600 vs Athlon Silver 7120U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-7600 performs better than the Athlon Silver 7120U. Despite this, the Athlon Silver 7120U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the A8-7600 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A8-7600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon Silver 7120U. Also, the A8-7600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Athlon Silver 7120U outputs less heat than A8-7600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the A8-7600 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Athlon Silver 7120U

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