AMD A10-7300 vs Intel Core i3-530

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

617 points

996 points

61% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1183 points

2013 points

70% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

464 points

734 points

58% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

446 points

704 points

57% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

8.57 points

12.44 points

45% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

822 points

860 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

315 points

412 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

635 points

764 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

283 points

367 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.9 GHz

2.93 GHz

54% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

19 W

284% significantly lower TDP

73 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,086th of 1,120

975th of 1,120

Family

The product line

A10-Series APU for Laptops

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A10-7300 vs Core i3-530 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-530 is faster than the A10-7300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-7300 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the A10-7300 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-530 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-530 has a significantly higher clock speed than the A10-7300. A A10-7300 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-530 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the A10-7300 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.