AMD A10-9600P vs Intel Pentium G3260

Compare AMD A10-Series APU for Laptops 4 core CPU vs Intel Pentium G Series 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
1206 points
13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2048 points
2612 points
27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

797 points
863 points
8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

764 points
828 points
8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.26 points
15.34 points
0.48% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

992 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
919 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

357 points
563 points
57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1037 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
995 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

463 points
583 points
25% 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
100% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
3.3 GHz
37% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
253% significantly lower TDP
53 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

932nd of 1,089
899th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A10-Series APU for Laptops
Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2015 February

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

-
Yes

A10-9600P vs Pentium G3260 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Pentium G3260 beats the A10-9600P in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-9600P in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the A10-9600P has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium G3260 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G3260. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium G3260 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A10-9600P. A A10-9600P CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G3260 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. 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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