Intel Core i3-4030U vs AMD PRO A10-8730B

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i3 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

767 points

1% slightly better overall score

755 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1414 points

1434 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

585 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

570 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

562 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

547 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

11.60 points

14.96 points

28% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1177 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

927 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

577 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

443 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

1.9 GHz

2.4 GHz

26% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,012th of 1,089

1,017th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i3

PRO A-Series A10 APU for Laptops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-4030U vs PRO A10-8730B comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-4030U beats the PRO A10-8730B in overall performance. Despite this, the PRO A10-8730B has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the PRO A10-8730B has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-4030U that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the PRO A10-8730B has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-4030U.

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 i3-4030U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.