AMD A6-7400K vs Intel Core i3-2100

Compare AMD A6-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i3-2100

Price

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$ 85.23

$ 49.00

$ 36.23 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

762 points

1270 points

66% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1703 points

2433 points

42% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

536 points

956 points

78% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

513 points

918 points

78% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

9.28 points

15.20 points

63% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

743 points

990 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

451 points

475 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

585 points

947 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

408 points

465 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,017th of 1,091

880th of 1,091

Family

The product line

A6-Series APU for Desktops

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 July

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A6-7400K vs Core i3-2100 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-2100 beats the A6-7400K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A6-7400K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i3-2100 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A6-7400K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-2100. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 A6-7400K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.