AMD A10-7850K vs Intel Core i3-2120

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

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Intel Core i3-2120

Price

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$ 134.99

$ 35.01 slightly less expensive

$ 170.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1343 points

2% slightly better overall score

1307 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2540 points

1% slightly better gaming score

2496 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1015 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

989 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

973 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

949 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

16.30 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

14.23 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1597 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1073 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

523 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

516 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1137 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1022 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

449 points

497 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

860th of 1,089

869th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A10-Series APU for Desktops

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 January

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

A10-7850K vs Core i3-2120 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A10-7850K performs better than the Core i3-2120. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-2120 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A10-7850K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-2120. The Core i3-2120 outputs less heat than A10-7850K 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 A10-7850K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.