AMD FX-6100 vs AMD A8-7600

Compare AMD 3 core CPU vs AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD A8-7600

Price

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$ 48.02

$ 34.47 significantly less expensive

$ 82.49

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1562 points

15% slightly better overall score

1357 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2587 points

0.78% slightly better gaming score

2567 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1252 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

1027 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1201 points

21% slightly better heavy workload score

986 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.00 points

49% significantly higher Blender score

18.02 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1175 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1150 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

375 points

456 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1240 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1045 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

387 points

429 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

795th of 1,089

852nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-6100 vs A8-7600 comparison

In our benchmarks, the A8-7600 beats the FX-6100 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-6100 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the FX-6100 has significantly more cores with 3 cores whereas the A8-7600 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the A8-7600. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-6100 has a slightly higher clock speed than the A8-7600. The info from our database shows that the FX-6100 has more L2 cache than the A8-7600

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. Indeed, the FX-6100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.