Intel Core i7-920 vs AMD A10-6700

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs AMD A10-Series APU for Desktops 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD A10-6700

Price

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$ 99.95

$ 98.02

$ 1.93 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1474 points

1% slightly better overall score

1454 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2489 points

2783 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1179 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

1092 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1132 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

1046 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

31.28 points

32% slightly higher Blender score

23.53 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1126 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

419 points

484 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1431 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1100 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

415 points

454 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.79 GHz

3.7 GHz

32% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.93 GHz

4.3 GHz

46% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

65 W

100% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

814th of 1,089

821st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

A10-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 November

2013 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-920 vs A10-6700 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-920 is faster than the A10-6700. Despite this, the A10-6700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-920 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the A10-6700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-920. Also, the A10-6700 has a significantly higher turbo speed. The A10-6700 outputs less heat than Core i7-920 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 Core i7-920 has more L2 cache than the A10-6700

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 i7-920 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.