AMD FX-9800P vs AMD Athlon II X2 240

Compare AMD 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

763 points
1% slightly better overall score
750 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1432 points
1634 points
14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

581 points
8% slightly better multitasking score
535 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

559 points
8% slightly better heavy workload score
514 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1113 points
114% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
519 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

514 points
76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
292 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1121 points
119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
511 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

495 points
65% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
299 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
100% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.7 GHz
2.8 GHz
3% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
Identical
2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,014th of 1,089
1,018th of 1,089

FX-9800P vs Athlon II X2 240 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-9800P performs better than the Athlon II X2 240. Despite this, the Athlon II X2 240 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the FX-9800P has significantly more cores than the Athlon II X2 240. Indeed, the FX-9800P has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Athlon II X2 240. It also has more threads than the Athlon II X2 240. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X2 240 has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-9800P. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache

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 FX-9800P has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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