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AMD FX-8300 vs AMD A12-9720P

Last updated: 2026-06-02

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD FX-8300

Rank 2 - 95 %

AMD A12-9720P

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD FX-8300

Rank 2 - 49 %

AMD A12-9720P

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.20 GHz

517

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

489

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

2,311

4C / 4T · 2.90 GHz

1,278

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.30 GHz

1,289

4C / 4T · 2.70 GHz

543

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.20 GHz

96 cb

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

76 cb

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

649 cb

4C / 4T · 2.90 GHz

237 cb

More benchmarks

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	AMD FX-8300	AMD A12-9720P
Family	AMD FX (30)	AMD A (112)
CPU group	AMD FX-8000 (11)	AMD A12-9700 (2)
Architecture	Vishera (Bulldozer)	Excavator (Bristol Ridge)
Technology	32 nm	28 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	AM3+	FP4
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD FX-8300	AMD A12-9720P
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	8x	4x Excavator
Frequency:	3.30 GHz	2.70 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	4.20 GHz	3.60 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	4.00 GHz	2.90 GHz
L2-Cache		2.00 MB
L3-Cache	8.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	AMD FX-8300	AMD A12-9720P
GPU name	no iGPU	AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge)
GPU frequency		0.76 GHz
CUs / Shader	/	8 / 512
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays		2
Max. GPU Memory		2 GB
Technology		28 nm
Release date		Q2/2016

NPU AI performance

Wischen	AMD FX-8300	AMD A12-9720P
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD FX-8300	AMD A12-9720P
Memory	DDR3-1866 (29.9 GB/s)	DDR4-1866 (29.9 GB/s)
Max. Memory		64 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	Yes	No
PCIe		3.0 x 8
PCIe Bandwidth		7.9 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	AMD FX-8300	AMD A12-9720P
TDP	95 W	15 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		90 °C

Technical details

Wischen	AMD FX-8300	AMD A12-9720P
Chip design	Unknown	Unknown
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, FMA4
Release date	Q2/2013	Q4/2016
Release price
Documents

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of AMD FX-8300 is 4.2 stars (30 ratings), while AMD A12-9720P has received 4.2 stars (6 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

AMD FX-8300
8C / 8T · 3.30 - 4.20 GHz

★★★★★

AMD A12-9720P
4C / 4T · 2.70 - 3.60 GHz

★★★★★