AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Core i3-2120

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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Intel Core i3-2120

Price

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$ 69.01

$ 100.99 significantly less expensive

$ 170.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

908 points

1307 points

43% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1895 points

2496 points

31% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

662 points

989 points

49% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

637 points

949 points

48% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.11 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

14.23 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1047 points

1073 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

439 points

516 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1036 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1022 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

425 points

497 points

16% 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

100 W

65 W

53% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

979th of 1,089

869th of 1,089

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

A8-5600K vs Core i3-2120 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-2120 beats the A8-5600K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5600K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. The Core i3-2120 outputs less heat than A8-5600K 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. Indeed, the A8-5600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.