AMD A8-4500M vs Intel Core i3-4030U

Compare AMD 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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$ 30.34

$ 1352.66 significantly less expensive

$ 1383.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

802 points

4% slightly better overall score

767 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1549 points

9% slightly better gaming score

1414 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

600 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

585 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

575 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

562 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

10.48 points

11.60 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

599 points

1097 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

281 points

534 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

646 points

1177 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

288 points

577 points

100% significantly 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

15 W

133% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,003rd of 1,089

1,012th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

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 i3-4030U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-4500M is faster than the Core i3-4030U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-4030U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. The Core i3-4030U outputs less heat than A8-4500M thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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. Indeed, the A8-4500M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.