AMD A8-9600 vs AMD Athlon X4 760K

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 4 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

1435 points
2% slightly better overall score
1399 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2697 points
2% slightly better gaming score
2628 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1088 points
2% slightly better multitasking score
1061 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1044 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score
1018 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.59 points
1% slightly higher Blender score
19.35 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1359 points
1399 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

569 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
502 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1498 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1117 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

611 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
458 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
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

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
24.26 MiB
1113% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

828th of 1,089
840th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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A8-9600 vs Athlon X4 760K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-9600 performs better than the Athlon X4 760K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon X4 760K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the A8-9600 has significantly more cores than the Athlon X4 760K. Indeed, the A8-9600 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Athlon X4 760K. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon X4 760K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A8-9600. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon X4 760K has significantly more L2 cache than 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.

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