AMD A6-3650 vs Intel Core i5-2520M

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1611 points
64% significantly better overall score
979 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2982 points
59% significantly better gaming score
1873 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1230 points
66% significantly better multitasking score
738 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1180 points
66% significantly better heavy workload score
708 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1221 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
915 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

354 points
462 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

916 points
929 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

296 points
467 points
57% 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

100 W
35 W
185% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

807th of 1,119
983rd of 1,119

Family

The product line

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Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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No

A6-3650 vs Core i5-2520M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the A6-3650 beats the Core i5-2520M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2520M in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the A6-3650 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-2520M has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. The Core i5-2520M outputs less heat than A6-3650 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 A6-3650 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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