AMD A8-7410 vs Intel Core i3-3227U

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

768 points

3% slightly better overall score

741 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1445 points

1471 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

582 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

550 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

558 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

527 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

7.41 points

9.38 points

26% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

656 points

778 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

244 points

335 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

635 points

643 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

242 points

301 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.2 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

1.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

25 W

17 W

47% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,010th of 1,089

1,020th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Laptops

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3L

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A8-7410 vs Core i3-3227U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the A8-7410 beats the Core i3-3227U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-3227U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the A8-7410 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-3227U that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-7410 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-3227U. The Core i3-3227U outputs less heat than A8-7410 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. For instance, the A8-7410 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.