Intel Core i3-2328M vs AMD PRO A8-8600B

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs AMD PRO A-Series A8 APU for Laptops 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

826 points
834 points
0.97% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1645 points
1650 points
0.30% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

611 points
617 points
0.98% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

586 points
589 points
0.51% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

660 points
982 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

327 points
411 points
25% 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

2.2 GHz
37% slightly higher clock speed
1.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
15 W
133% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

997th of 1,089
994th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
PRO A-Series A8 APU for Laptops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i3-2328M vs PRO A8-8600B benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the PRO A8-8600B performs better than the Core i3-2328M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-2328M in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-2328M has a slightly higher clock speed than the PRO A8-8600B.

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 Core i3-2328M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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