AMD A10-8700P vs Intel Core i3-2100

Compare AMD A10-Series APU for Laptops 2 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

1000 points

1270 points

27% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1959 points

2433 points

24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

747 points

956 points

27% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

717 points

918 points

28% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

14.21 points

15.20 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

951 points

990 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

351 points

475 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1076 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

947 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

487 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

465 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.8 GHz

3.1 GHz

72% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

85% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

947th of 1,089

878th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A10-Series APU for Laptops

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A10-8700P vs Core i3-2100 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-2100 performs better than the A10-8700P. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-8700P in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-2100 has a significantly higher clock speed than the A10-8700P. A A10-8700P CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-2100 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the A10-8700P has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.