AMD A8-9600 vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

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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AMD Phenom II X4 945

Price

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$ 13.10

$ 34.92 significantly less expensive

$ 48.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1435 points

1445 points

0.70% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2697 points

1% slightly better gaming score

2654 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1088 points

1105 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1044 points

1061 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.59 points

19.89 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1359 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1342 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

569 points

42% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

398 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1498 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1037 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

611 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

342 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

Identical

2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

828th of 1,089

822nd 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 Phenom II X4 945 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-9600 is faster than the Phenom II X4 945. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 945 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A8-9600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X4 945. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache

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.