AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Core i7-3540M

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 i7-3540M

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

1405 points

54% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1895 points

2845 points

50% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

662 points

1034 points

56% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

637 points

993 points

55% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.11 points

19.50 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1047 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

803 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

439 points

442 points

0.68% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1036 points

1163 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

425 points

569 points

33% 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

837th of 1,089

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 February

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 i7-3540M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3540M is faster than the A8-5600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5600K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. The Core i7-3540M 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.