Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 vs AMD PRO A10-8730B

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs AMD PRO A-Series A10 APU for Laptops 4 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

725 points
755 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1576 points
9% slightly better gaming score
1434 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

518 points
570 points
10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

497 points
547 points
10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

524 points
927 points
76% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

315 points
443 points
40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.66 GHz
11% slightly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache
2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,024th of 1,089
1,017th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
PRO A-Series A10 APU for Laptops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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No

Core 2 Duo E8200 vs PRO A10-8730B benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the PRO A10-8730B beats the Core 2 Duo E8200 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core 2 Duo E8200 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the PRO A10-8730B has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core 2 Duo E8200 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Duo E8200. With our hardware info, we find that the Core 2 Duo E8200 has a slightly higher clock speed than the PRO A10-8730B. In terms of cache, the Core 2 Duo E8200 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the PRO A10-8730B

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 Core 2 Duo E8200 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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