AMD A6-5200 vs Intel Core i3-3227U

Compare AMD A6-Series APU for Desktops 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

709 points

741 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1313 points

1471 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

540 points

550 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

518 points

527 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

7.43 points

9.38 points

26% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

559 points

778 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

202 points

335 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

587 points

643 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

205 points

301 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

1.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

25 W

17 W

47% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,027th of 1,089

1,020th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A6-Series APU for Desktops

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

2013 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A6-5200 vs Core i3-3227U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-3227U performs better than the A6-5200. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A6-5200 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the A6-5200 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-3227U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A6-5200 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-3227U. The Core i3-3227U outputs less heat than A6-5200 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 A6-5200 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.