AMD FX-6100 vs AMD A8-9600

Compare AMD 3 core CPU vs AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD A8-9600

Price

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$ 48.02

$ 13.10

$ 34.92 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1562 points

8% slightly better overall score

1435 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2587 points

2697 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1252 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

1088 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1201 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

1044 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.00 points

37% slightly higher Blender score

19.59 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1175 points

1359 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

375 points

569 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1240 points

1498 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

387 points

611 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly 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

200% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

795th of 1,089

828th 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

FX-6100 vs A8-9600 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-6100 is faster than the A8-9600. Despite this, the A8-9600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the A8-9600 has slightly more cores with 4 cores compared to the FX-6100 that has 3 cores. Despite this, the FX-6100 has more threads than the A8-9600. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-6100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A8-9600. The info from our database shows that the FX-6100 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. Indeed, the FX-6100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.