AMD A8-9600 vs AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 2100GE

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 4 core CPU vs AMD 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1435 points

1504 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2697 points

2878 points

6% 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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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.59 points

25.44 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

3.2 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

828th of 1,089

807th 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 Ryzen 3 PRO 2100GE comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 3 PRO 2100GE performs better than the A8-9600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-9600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the A8-9600 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 PRO 2100GE has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 PRO 2100GE has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A8-9600. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the A8-9600 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 PRO 2100GE

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.