AMD A10-6800K vs Intel Core i7-3612QM

A10-6800K vs Core i7-3612QM benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3612QM beats the A10-6800K in overall performance. Despite this, the A10-6800K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-3612QM has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the A10-6800K that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the A10-6800K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A10-6800K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3612QM. Also, the A10-6800K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3612QM outputs less heat than A10-6800K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the A10-6800K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.