AMD A8-4500M vs Intel Core i3-3120M

Compare AMD 2 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

802 points

924 points

15% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1549 points

1808 points

16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

600 points

689 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

575 points

660 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

10.48 points

13.36 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

599 points

854 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

281 points

405 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

646 points

831 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

288 points

400 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

Identical

35 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,003rd of 1,089

974th of 1,089

Family

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A8-4500M vs Core i3-3120M comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-3120M performs better than the A8-4500M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-4500M in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. 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.

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. Indeed, the A8-4500M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.