AMD A10-9600P vs Intel Core i5-3230M

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

1086 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2048 points

2128 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

797 points

812 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

764 points

780 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.26 points

17.73 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

992 points

1041 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

357 points

523 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1037 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1017 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

463 points

505 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

2.6 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

133% significantly lower TDP

35 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

932nd of 1,089

927th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A10-Series APU for Laptops

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A10-9600P vs Core i5-3230M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3230M is faster than the A10-9600P. 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 i5-3230M. Indeed, the A10-9600P has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-3230M. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-3230M has a slightly higher clock speed than the A10-9600P. A A10-9600P CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-3230M CPU because of its 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. For instance, the A10-9600P has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.