Intel Core i5-3230M 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

1086 points

1399 points

28% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2128 points

2628 points

23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

812 points

1061 points

30% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

780 points

1018 points

30% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.73 points

19.35 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1041 points

1399 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

523 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

502 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1017 points

1117 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

505 points

10% 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

2.6 GHz

3.8 GHz

46% significantly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

927th of 1,089

840th 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 i5-3230M vs Athlon X4 760K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Athlon X4 760K beats the Core i5-3230M in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-3230M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon X4 760K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3230M.

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 i5-3230M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.