AMD A8-9600 vs Intel Core i5-3380M

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 4 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 i5-3380M

Price

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$ 13.10

$ 1499.90 significantly less expensive

$ 1513.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1435 points

18% slightly better overall score

1206 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2697 points

13% slightly better gaming score

2384 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1088 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

898 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1044 points

21% slightly better heavy workload score

860 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.59 points

19.64 points

0.27% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1359 points

1425 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

569 points

633 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1498 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1060 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

611 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

508 points

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

3.1 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

3.6 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

35 W

85% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

828th of 1,089

898th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July

2013 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A8-9600 vs Core i5-3380M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-9600 is faster than the Core i5-3380M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3380M in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the A8-9600 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i5-3380M that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-9600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-3380M. Despite this, the Core i5-3380M has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-3380M outputs less heat than A8-9600 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 A8-9600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.