AMD A8-9600 vs AMD Phenom II X4 965

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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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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

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

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

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

842nd of 1,114
779th of 1,114

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops
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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
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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