AMD A6-3670 vs Intel Core i7-870

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

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Intel Core i7-870

Price

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$ 701.00

$ 163.04

$ 537.96 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1411 points

1923 points

36% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2611 points

3090 points

18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1076 points

1576 points

46% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1032 points

1513 points

46% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1218 points

1563 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

364 points

485 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

856 points

1550 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

297 points

475 points

59% significantly 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

100 W

95 W

5% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

834th of 1,089

732nd of 1,089

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A6-3670 vs Core i7-870 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-870 beats the A6-3670 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A6-3670 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-870 has more threads. The Core i7-870 outputs less heat than A6-3670 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the A6-3670 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.