AMD A10-8700P vs Intel Core i5-3317U

A10-8700P vs Core i5-3317U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the A10-8700P beats the Core i5-3317U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-3317U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A10-8700P has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3317U. Also, the A10-8700P has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-3317U outputs less heat than A10-8700P thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 A10-8700P has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.