AMD A8-9600 vs AMD Phenom II X4 965

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 965

Price

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$ 13.10

$ 50.92 significantly less expensive

$ 64.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1470 points

1773 points

20% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2763 points

3249 points

17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1115 points

1356 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1070 points

1300 points

21% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.59 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

16.61 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

3.4 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

Identical

2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

837th of 1,120

783rd of 1,120

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 965 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X4 965 performs better than the A8-9600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-9600 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 965 has a slightly higher clock speed than the A8-9600. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the A8-9600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.