AMD A8-9600 vs AMD A10-7850K

AMD A8-9600
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3100 MHz / Cores: 4 / Sep 2016
AMD A8-9600
AMD A10-7850K
AMD Socket FM2DESKTOP
3700 MHz / Cores: 4 / Jan 2014
AMD A10-7850K

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD A8-9600
    100%
  • AMD A10-7850K
    120%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD A8-9600
    100%
  • AMD A10-7850K
    119%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD A8-9600
    100%
  • AMD A10-7850K
    122%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD A8-9600

This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).

Reasons to consider AMD A10-7850K

19% higher single threaded performance.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 22% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
Around 20% higher average synthetic performance.

AMD A10-7850K

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD A10-7850K

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD A10-7850K

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD A10-7850K

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

AMD A8-9600AMD A10-7850K
MMX
3DNow!
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSE4A
AMD64
CnQ
NX bit
AMD-V

Architecture

AMD A8-9600AMD A10-7850K
ArchitectureAMD ExcavatorvsAMD Steamroller
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR3
CodenameBristol RidgevsKaveri
Release DateSep 2016vsJan 2014

Cores

AMD A8-9600AMD A10-7850K
Cores4vs4
Threads4vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon R7vsRadeon R7

Cache

AMD A8-9600AMD A10-7850K
L1 Cache128 KB (per core)vs128 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs1024 KB (per core)
L3 Cache0 KBvs0 KB

Physical

AMD A8-9600AMD A10-7850K
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsAMD Socket FM2
Max Case Tempunknownvs74°C
PackageuPGAvsuPGA
Die Sizeunknownvs246mm²
Process14 nmvs28 nm

Performance

AMD A8-9600AMD A10-7850K
Cpu Frequency3100 MHzvs3700 MHz
Turbo Clock3400 MHzvs4000 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltageunknownvs1.475 V
TDP65 Wvs95 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD A8-9600
    2346 points
  • AMD A10-7850K
    2520 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD A8-9600
    7443 points
  • AMD A10-7850K
    7925 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD A8-9600 (simulated)
    72.05
  • AMD A10-7850K
    86

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD A8-9600 (simulated)
    260.24
  • AMD A10-7850K
    318

points - higher is better