AMD A6-3500 vs AMD Phenom X4 9850B

Comparative analysis of AMD A6-3500 and AMD Phenom X4 9850B processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Compatibility, Virtualization. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, Geekbench 4 - Single Core, Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD A6-3500

• CPU is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 0 month(s) later
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 32 nm vs 65 nm
• Around 50% more L2 cache; more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
• Around 46% lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 95 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Phenom X4 9850B

• 1 more cores, run more applications at once: 4 vs 3
• Around 19% higher clock speed: 2.5 GHz vs 2.1 GHz
• Around 33% more L1 cache; more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
• Around 3% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 992 vs 964
• Around 37% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 1946 vs 1417

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD A6-3500
CPU 2: AMD Phenom X4 9850B

PassMark - Single thread mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	964 992
PassMark - CPU mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	1417 1946

Compare specifications (specs)