AMD A10-6800K vs Intel Core i7-3630QM

Compare AMD A10-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 467.04
$ 229.00
$ 238.04 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1559 points
1913 points
22% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2915 points
2976 points
2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1183 points
1587 points
34% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1134 points
1523 points
34% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.26 points
36.41 points
174% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1136 points
1885 points
65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

479 points
561 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1139 points
1900 points
66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

477 points
561 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.1 GHz
70% significantly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
29% slightly higher turbo speed
3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

100 W
45 W
122% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

797th of 1,089
734th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A10-Series APU for Desktops
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June
2012 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

A10-6800K vs Core i7-3630QM benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-3630QM performs better than the A10-6800K. Despite this, the A10-6800K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-3630QM 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 i7-3630QM. Also, the A10-6800K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3630QM 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.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the A10-6800K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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