AMD A10-8700P vs Intel Core i3-540

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1000 points
1037 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1959 points
2070 points
5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

747 points
769 points
2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

717 points
739 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

14.21 points
14.86 points
4% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

951 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
818 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

351 points
386 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1076 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
836 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

487 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
404 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.8 GHz
3.06 GHz
69% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
108% significantly lower TDP
73 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

963rd of 1,107
955th of 1,107

Family

The product line

A10-Series APU for Laptops
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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