AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs AMD A8-7600

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 219.80
$ 82.49
$ 137.31 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7869 points
479% significantly better overall score
1357 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9478 points
269% significantly better gaming score
2567 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7328 points
613% significantly better multitasking score
1027 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7169 points
627% significantly better heavy workload score
986 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

213.11 points
1082% significantly higher Blender score
18.02 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10085 points
776% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1150 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2119 points
364% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
456 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10211 points
877% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1045 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2193 points
411% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
429 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
300% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
300% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
22% slightly higher clock speed
3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
23% slightly higher turbo speed
3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
65 W
61% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
Identical
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

151st of 1,089
852nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
A8-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2014 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Ryzen 7 5800X vs A8-7600 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800X beats the A8-7600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-7600 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 5800X has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the A8-7600 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the A8-7600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher clock speed than the A8-7600. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The A8-7600 outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache

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 Ryzen 7 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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