AMD A8-9600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 13.10
$ 182.20 significantly less expensive
$ 195.30

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1435 points
8673 points
504% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2697 points
12393 points
359% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1088 points
7498 points
589% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1044 points
7245 points
593% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.59 points
233.29 points
1091% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1498 points
14957 points
898% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

611 points
3338 points
446% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
3.9 GHz
25% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
5.4 GHz
58% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
6 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

828th of 1,089
118th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July
2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

A8-9600 vs Ryzen 5 9600X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 9600X is faster than the A8-9600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-9600 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 9600X has significantly more cores than the A8-9600. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 9600X has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the A8-9600. It also has more threads than the A8-9600. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A8-9600. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X has a significantly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 9600X has more L2 cache than the A8-9600

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.

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