Intel Core i5-3210M vs AMD Athlon X4 760K

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs AMD 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

1066 points

1399 points

31% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2093 points

2628 points

25% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

796 points

1061 points

33% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

763 points

1018 points

33% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

16.49 points

19.35 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

974 points

1399 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

480 points

502 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

993 points

1117 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

489 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

458 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

3.8 GHz

52% significantly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

931st of 1,089

840th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-3210M vs Athlon X4 760K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Athlon X4 760K beats the Core i5-3210M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3210M in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon X4 760K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3210M.

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 i5-3210M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.