AMD A6-3670 vs Intel Core i7-950

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 i7-950

Price

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$ 701.00

$ 31.00

$ 670.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1411 points

3% slightly better overall score

1367 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2611 points

21% slightly better gaming score

2145 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1076 points

1130 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1032 points

1084 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1218 points

1595 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

364 points

460 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

856 points

1494 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

297 points

457 points

53% 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

30% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

858th of 1,127

874th of 1,127

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 May

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 i7-950 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A6-3670 is faster than the Core i7-950. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-950 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-950 has more threads. A A6-3670 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-950 CPU because of its slightly 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 A6-3670 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.