AMD A8-9600 vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

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

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AMD Athlon II X4 640

Price

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$ 13.10

$ 34.92 significantly less expensive

$ 48.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1435 points

1463 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2697 points

2727 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1088 points

1106 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1044 points

1058 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.59 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

15.73 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1359 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

943 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

569 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

308 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1498 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

948 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

611 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

313 points

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% slightly higher clock speed

3 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

Identical

2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

828th of 1,089

819th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A8-9600 vs Athlon II X4 640 comparison

In our benchmarks, the A8-9600 beats the Athlon II X4 640 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 640 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. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-9600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon II X4 640. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache

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. For instance, the A8-9600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.