AMD A8-6500 vs Intel Core i3-2130

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Price

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$ 284.69
$ 47.09
$ 237.60 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1387 points
1392 points
0.36% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2608 points
2662 points
2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points
Identical
1049 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points
Identical
1007 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.09 points
36% slightly higher Blender score
14.70 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1350 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1298 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

496 points
574 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1029 points
1064 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

438 points
521 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed
3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

861st of 1,114
858th of 1,114

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June
2011 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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