AMD A8-9600 vs AMD Athlon II X4 651

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1435 points

2% slightly better overall score

1406 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2697 points

4% slightly better gaming score

2588 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1088 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

1074 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1044 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

1032 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1359 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1113 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

569 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

332 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1498 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1108 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

611 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

333 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

4 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

828th of 1,089

835th 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 651 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-9600 is faster than the Athlon II X4 651. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 651 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 A8-9600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon II X4 651. In terms of cache, the Athlon II X4 651 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the A8-9600

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