AMD A4-5300 vs Intel Core i5-3210M

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-3210M

Price

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$ 383.00

$ 39.99

$ 343.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

690 points

1066 points

54% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1547 points

2093 points

35% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

487 points

796 points

63% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

467 points

763 points

63% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

640 points

974 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

409 points

480 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

512 points

993 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

372 points

489 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

35 W

85% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,032nd of 1,089

931st of 1,089

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A4-5300 vs Core i5-3210M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3210M beats the A4-5300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A4-5300 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-3210M has more threads. The Core i5-3210M outputs less heat than A4-5300 thanks to a 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 A4-5300 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.