AMD A8-9600 vs AMD FX-8120

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Price

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$ 13.10
$ 64.92 significantly less expensive
$ 78.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1470 points
2149 points
46% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2763 points
3146 points
13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1115 points
1828 points
63% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1070 points
1755 points
64% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.59 points
32.29 points
64% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1359 points
1601 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

569 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
443 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1498 points
1521 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

611 points
49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
410 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
Identical
3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
4 GHz
17% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
92% significantly lower TDP
125 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
8 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

833rd of 1,114
710th of 1,114

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops
FX 8-Core Black Edition

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
-

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

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