Intel Core i7-3540M vs AMD PRO A8-8670E

Core i7-3540M vs PRO A8-8670E benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-3540M performs better than the PRO A8-8670E. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the PRO A8-8670E in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the PRO A8-8670E has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-3540M has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3540M has a slightly higher clock speed than the PRO A8-8670E.

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 i7-3540M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.