AMD A8-7600 vs AMD Athlon X4 860K

Compare AMD A8-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

1357 points

1469 points

8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2567 points

2762 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1027 points

1113 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points

1068 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.02 points

20.94 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1150 points

1164 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

456 points

468 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1045 points

1128 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

429 points

455 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

3.7 GHz

19% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

95 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

Identical

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

852nd of 1,089

815th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 July

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

A8-7600 vs Athlon X4 860K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-7600 is faster than the Athlon X4 860K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon X4 860K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon X4 860K has a slightly higher clock speed than the A8-7600. A A8-7600 CPU outputs less heat than a Athlon X4 860K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical 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. Indeed, the A8-7600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.