Intel Core i5-3320M 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

1205 points
1399 points
16% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2406 points
2628 points
9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

892 points
1061 points
18% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

856 points
1018 points
18% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

16.58 points
19.35 points
16% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1061 points
1399 points
31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

513 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
502 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1046 points
1117 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

514 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
458 points

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

2.60 GHz
3.8 GHz
46% significantly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.25 MiB
24.26 MiB
9605% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

900th of 1,089
840th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-3320M vs Athlon X4 760K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3320M is faster than the Athlon X4 760K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon X4 760K 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 i5-3320M. The info from our database shows that the Athlon X4 760K has more L2 cache than the Core i5-3320M

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-3320M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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