AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Core i3-4000M

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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 69.01
$ 58.11
$ 10.90 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

908 points
915 points
0.77% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1895 points
3% slightly better gaming score
1829 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

662 points
674 points
1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

637 points
646 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.11 points
19.93 points
10% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1047 points
1400 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

439 points
698 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1036 points
1447 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

425 points
720 points
69% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

100 W
37 W
170% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

979th of 1,089
977th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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4th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2013 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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No

A8-5600K vs Core i3-4000M benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-4000M performs better than the A8-5600K. Despite this, the A8-5600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. The Core i3-4000M 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.

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