AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Core i7-3520M

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 i7-3520M

Price

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$ 69.01

$ 39.01 significantly less expensive

$ 108.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

908 points

1256 points

38% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1895 points

2477 points

30% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

662 points

934 points

41% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

637 points

895 points

40% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.11 points

19.75 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1047 points

1134 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

439 points

554 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1036 points

1158 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

425 points

570 points

34% 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

35 W

185% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

979th of 1,089

881st of 1,089

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 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 i7-3520M benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-5600K performs better than the Core i7-3520M. Despite this, the Core i7-3520M 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 i7-3520M 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.