AMD A10-8700P vs Intel Core i7-3517U

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

1067 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1959 points

2095 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

747 points

796 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

717 points

764 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

14.21 points

122% significantly higher Blender score

6.39 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

951 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

915 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

351 points

458 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1076 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

915 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

487 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

450 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

1.9 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

17 W

105% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

947th of 1,089

930th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A10-Series APU for Laptops

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A10-8700P vs Core i7-3517U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A10-8700P performs better than the Core i7-3517U. Despite this, the Core i7-3517U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 i7-3517U has a slightly higher clock speed than the A10-8700P. The Core i7-3517U 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.