Intel Core i7-3770 vs AMD A6-5350M

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs AMD A6-Series APU for Laptops 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 174.85
$ 33.95
$ 140.90 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2575 points
301% significantly better overall score
641 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4118 points
196% significantly better gaming score
1391 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2119 points
360% significantly better multitasking score
460 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2036 points
360% significantly better heavy workload score
442 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2294 points
370% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
488 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

672 points
94% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
345 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2315 points
422% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
443 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

673 points
113% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
315 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
300% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.40 GHz
17% slightly higher clock speed
2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed
3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W
35 W
120% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
2 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

611th of 1,089
1,049th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
A6-Series APU for Laptops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
2013 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i7-3770 vs A6-5350M benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-3770 performs better than the A6-5350M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A6-5350M in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-3770 has significantly more cores than the A6-5350M. Indeed, the Core i7-3770 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A6-5350M. It also has more threads than the A6-5350M. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3770 has a slightly higher clock speed than the A6-5350M. Also, the Core i7-3770 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The A6-5350M outputs less heat than Core i7-3770 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the A6-5350M has more L2 cache than the Core i7-3770

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 i7-3770 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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