AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Core i3-5010U

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs Intel 5th Generation Core i3 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i3-5010U

Price

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$ 69.01

$ 1081.99 significantly less expensive

$ 1151.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

908 points

Identical

908 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1895 points

11% slightly better gaming score

1699 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

662 points

690 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

637 points

663 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.11 points

43% significantly higher Blender score

12.60 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1047 points

1335 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

439 points

650 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1036 points

1338 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

425 points

659 points

55% 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

100 W

15 W

566% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

979th of 1,089

980th of 1,089

Family

The product line

5th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A8-5600K vs Core i3-5010U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-5600K performs better than the Core i3-5010U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-5010U 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 i3-5010U 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.

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 A8-5600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.