AMD A6-3620 vs Intel Core i5-3230M

Compare AMD 4 core CPU vs Intel Core 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 644.00
$ 99.99
$ 544.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1140 points
4% slightly better overall score
1086 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2097 points
2128 points
1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

870 points
7% slightly better multitasking score
812 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

835 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score
780 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

14.76 points
17.73 points
20% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1046 points
0.48% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1041 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

312 points
523 points
67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

803 points
1017 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

259 points
505 points
94% significantly 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

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

914th of 1,089
927th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2013 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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No

A6-3620 vs Core i5-3230M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A6-3620 is faster than the Core i5-3230M. Despite this, the Core i5-3230M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the A6-3620 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-3230M. Indeed, the A6-3620 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-3230M. But they both have the same number of threads. The Core i5-3230M outputs less heat than A6-3620 thanks to a 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 A6-3620 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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