AMD A10-9600P vs Intel Core i3-3240

Compare AMD A10-Series APU for Laptops 4 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

1061 points
1315 points
23% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2048 points
2538 points
23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

797 points
986 points
23% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

764 points
946 points
23% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.26 points
19.18 points
25% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

992 points
1122 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

357 points
547 points
53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1037 points
1110 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

463 points
544 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
3.4 GHz
41% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
266% significantly lower TDP
55 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

932nd of 1,089
866th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A10-Series APU for Laptops
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2012 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

A10-9600P vs Core i3-3240 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-3240 beats the A10-9600P in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-9600P in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the A10-9600P has significantly more cores than the Core i3-3240. Indeed, the A10-9600P has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-3240. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-3240 has a slightly higher clock speed than the A10-9600P. A A10-9600P CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-3240 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. For instance, the A10-9600P has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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