AMD A10-7850K vs Intel Core i5-2300

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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Intel Core i5-2300

Price

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$ 134.99

$ 35.00

$ 99.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1343 points

1738 points

29% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2540 points

3210 points

26% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1015 points

1327 points

30% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

973 points

1273 points

30% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

16.30 points

25.92 points

58% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1597 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1515 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

1499 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

449 points

510 points

13% 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

3.7 GHz

32% slightly higher clock speed

2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

29% slightly higher turbo speed

3.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

860th of 1,089

769th 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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A10-7850K vs Core i5-2300 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-2300 is faster than the A10-7850K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-7850K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-2300 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A10-7850K has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A10-7850K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2300. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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.