AMD A6-5200 vs Intel Core i5 M 430

Compare AMD A6-Series APU for Desktops 4 core CPU vs Intel 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

737 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1313 points

1440 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

540 points

552 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

518 points

531 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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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

2.27 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

0.25 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,027th of 1,089

1,022nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

A6-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A6-5200 vs Core i5 M 430 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A6-5200 is faster than the Core i5 M 430. Despite this, the Core i5 M 430 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the A6-5200 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5 M 430 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5 M 430 has a slightly higher clock speed than the A6-5200. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the A6-5200 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5 M 430

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.