Intel Core i3-3227U vs AMD FX-9800P

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs AMD 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

741 points

763 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1471 points

2% slightly better gaming score

1432 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

550 points

581 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

527 points

559 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

9.38 points

17.61 points

87% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

778 points

1113 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

335 points

514 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

643 points

1121 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

301 points

495 points

64% significantly 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

1.9 GHz

2.7 GHz

42% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,020th of 1,089

1,014th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-3227U vs FX-9800P specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-9800P 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 FX-9800P 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 FX-9800P has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-3227U.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-3227U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.