AMD A8-9600 vs Intel Xeon E5-1603

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

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Intel Xeon E5-1603

Price

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$ 13.10

$ 738.90 significantly less expensive

$ 752.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1435 points

1564 points

8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2697 points

2883 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1088 points

1194 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1044 points

1145 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.59 points

22.30 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1359 points

1999 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

569 points

0.35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

567 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1498 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1475 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

611 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

468 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

100% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

828th of 1,089

793rd 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 Xeon E5-1603 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1603 beats the A8-9600 in overall performance. 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. A A8-9600 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1603 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.