AMD Phenom II X4 B97 vs AMD A8-7600. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Family
  AMD Phenom II AMD A
• Generation
  4 4
• CPU group
  AMD Phenom II - 800/900 AMD A8-7000

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  3.20 GHz 3.10 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 3.80 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Turbo (4 Cores)
  No turbo 3.50 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  no iGPU AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Kaveri)
• GPU frequency
  0.72 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  8
• Shader
  512
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 2 GB
• Max. displays
  2
• Generation
  6
• DirectX Version
  12
• Technology
  28 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2014

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  No Decode
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD A8-7600 and AMD Phenom II X4 B97. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR2-1066 DDR3-2133
• ECC
  No Yes
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0
• PCIe lanes
  16

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Phenom II X4 B97 and AMD A8-7600 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  95 W 65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Phenom II X4 B97 and AMD Phenom II X4 B97, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V AMD-V
• ISA extensions
  SSE3, SSE4a SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4
• L3-Cache
  6.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Deneb (K10) Kaveri (Steamroller)
• Technology
  45 nm 28 nm
• Socket
  AM3 FM2+
• Release date
  Q2/2010 Q1/2014