Intel Core i7-3770 vs AMD A6-9500

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Price

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$ 174.85
$ 50.00
$ 124.85 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2576 points
226% significantly better overall score
790 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4117 points
137% significantly better gaming score
1734 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2121 points
274% significantly better multitasking score
567 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2038 points
270% significantly better heavy workload score
550 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.88 points
277% significantly higher Blender score
12.14 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2294 points
146% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
929 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

672 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
624 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2315 points
141% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
957 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

673 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
641 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
3.5 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed
3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W
65 W
18% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
Identical
1 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

613th of 1,092
1,009th of 1,092

Family

The product line

Core
A6-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
2016 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

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