AMD A6-3650 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1611 points
48% significantly better overall score
1086 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2982 points
40% slightly better gaming score
2128 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1230 points
51% significantly better multitasking score
812 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1180 points
51% significantly better heavy workload score
780 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1221 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1041 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

354 points
523 points
47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

916 points
1017 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

296 points
505 points
70% 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

786th 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

A6-3650 vs Core i5-3230M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the A6-3650 beats the Core i5-3230M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3230M 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 i5-3230M has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. The Core i5-3230M 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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