AMD A8-9600 vs AMD FX-8120

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 4 core CPU vs AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD FX-8120

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

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.59 points

32.29 points

64% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1359 points

1601 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

569 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

443 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1498 points

1521 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) 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

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

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

837th of 1,120

714th of 1,120

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

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

A8-9600 vs FX-8120 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-8120 beats the A8-9600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-9600 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the FX-8120 has more threads. In terms of clock speed, the A8-9600 and FX-8120 are identical in this regard. Despite this, the FX-8120 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A A8-9600 CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8120 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 FX-8120 has more L2 cache than the A8-9600

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the A8-9600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.