AMD A8-7600 vs AMD FX-4300

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

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 82.49
$ 49.00
$ 33.49 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1357 points
0.37% slightly better overall score
1352 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2567 points
1% slightly better gaming score
2531 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1027 points
0.10% slightly better multitasking score
1026 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points
Identical
986 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.02 points
4% slightly higher Blender score
17.26 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1150 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1076 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

456 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
434 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1045 points
1111 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

429 points
453 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
3.8 GHz
22% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
4 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
46% significantly lower TDP
95 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache
192 KiB

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
855th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops
FX 4-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 July
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

A8-7600 vs FX-4300 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-7600 performs better than the FX-4300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4300 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-4300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A8-7600. A A8-7600 CPU outputs less heat than a FX-4300 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.

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