AMD A8-9600 vs AMD Athlon X4 870K

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

1400 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2697 points

2698 points

0.04% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1088 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

1049 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1044 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

1006 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.59 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

18.63 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1498 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1209 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

611 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

468 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

3.89 GHz

25% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

4.1 GHz

20% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

95 W

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

839th 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

Yes

A8-9600 vs Athlon X4 870K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-9600 is faster than the Athlon X4 870K. Despite this, the Athlon X4 870K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the A8-9600 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon X4 870K has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon X4 870K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A8-9600. Also, the Athlon X4 870K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A A8-9600 CPU outputs less heat than a Athlon X4 870K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Athlon X4 870K has 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.