AMD A6-9500 vs Intel Core i3-4030U

Compare AMD A6-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i3 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i3-4030U

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 1333.00 significantly less expensive

$ 1383.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

790 points

2% slightly better overall score

767 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1734 points

22% slightly better gaming score

1414 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

567 points

585 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

550 points

562 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

12.14 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

11.60 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

929 points

1097 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

624 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

534 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

957 points

1177 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

641 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

577 points

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

84% significantly higher clock speed

1.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,006th of 1,089

1,012th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A6-Series APU for Desktops

4th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 September

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A6-9500 vs Core i3-4030U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A6-9500 performs better than the Core i3-4030U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-4030U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i3-4030U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A6-9500 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-4030U. The Core i3-4030U outputs less heat than A6-9500 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 A6-9500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.