AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Core i5-4210M

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-4210M

Price

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$ 69.01

$ 19.03 slightly less expensive

$ 88.04

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

908 points

1250 points

37% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1895 points

2527 points

33% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

662 points

920 points

38% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

637 points

882 points

38% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.11 points

21.96 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1047 points

1750 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

439 points

886 points

101% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1036 points

1765 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

425 points

907 points

113% 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

37 W

170% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

979th of 1,089

883rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5

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

A8-5600K vs Core i5-4210M benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-5600K performs better than the Core i5-4210M. Despite this, the Core i5-4210M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. The Core i5-4210M 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.