AMD A8-9600 vs AMD Phenom II X4 960T

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 960T

Price

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$ 13.10

$ 38.92 significantly less expensive

$ 52.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1435 points

1496 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2697 points

2813 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1088 points

1133 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1044 points

1088 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1498 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

993 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

611 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

354 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

809th 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 960T comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X4 960T performs better than the A8-9600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-9600 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-9600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X4 960T. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache

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.