AMD A10-8700P vs Intel Core i3-540

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
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

970th of 1,116
963rd of 1,116

Family

The product line

A10-Series APU for Laptops
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

A10-8700P vs Core i3-540 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-540 performs better than the A10-8700P. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-8700P in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-540 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the A10-8700P. A A10-8700P CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-540 CPU because of its significantly 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 A10-8700P has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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