AMD A8-6500 vs Intel Core i3-4160

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i3 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i3-4160

Price

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$ 284.69

$ 98.00

$ 186.69 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1387 points

1444 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2608 points

2813 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points

1081 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points

1038 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.09 points

23.82 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1350 points

1850 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

496 points

962 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1029 points

2084 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

438 points

1076 points

145% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

3.6 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

54 W

20% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

843rd of 1,089

823rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

4th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

A8-6500 vs Core i3-4160 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-4160 is faster than the A8-6500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-6500 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-4160 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A8-6500. The Core i3-4160 outputs less heat than A8-6500 thanks to a slightly 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 A8-6500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.