AMD A8-7600 vs AMD PRO A8-8670E

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs AMD 4 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
1388 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2567 points
2604 points
1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1027 points
1054 points
2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points
1011 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
10% slightly higher clock speed
2.8 GHz

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

859th of 1,099
848th of 1,099

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops
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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
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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A8-7600 vs PRO A8-8670E specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the PRO A8-8670E beats the A8-7600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-7600 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the PRO A8-8670E has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the A8-7600 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-7600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the PRO A8-8670E. The info from our database shows that the A8-7600 has more L2 cache than the PRO A8-8670E

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the A8-7600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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