AMD A10-7850K vs Intel Core i7-960

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

$ 134.99
$ 15.01 slightly less expensive
$ 150.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1343 points
1995 points
48% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2540 points
3216 points
26% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1015 points
1629 points
60% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

973 points
1563 points
60% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

16.30 points
32.27 points
97% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1597 points
1700 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

523 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
503 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1137 points
1672 points
47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

449 points
492 points
9% 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

3.7 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed
3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
15% slightly higher turbo speed
3.46 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
36% slightly lower TDP
130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
3
49% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

860th of 1,089
719th 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
2009 November

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

-
No

A10-7850K vs Core i7-960 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-960 performs better than the A10-7850K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-7850K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-960 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the A10-7850K that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the A10-7850K. With our hardware info, we find that the A10-7850K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-960. A A10-7850K CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-960 CPU because of its slightly 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. Indeed, the A10-7850K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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