Intel Core i7-920 vs AMD A10-7850K

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs AMD A10-Series APU for Desktops 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

$ 99.95
$ 35.04 significantly less expensive
$ 134.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1474 points
9% slightly better overall score
1343 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2489 points
2540 points
2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1179 points
16% slightly better multitasking score
1015 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1132 points
16% slightly better heavy workload score
973 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

31.28 points
91% significantly higher Blender score
16.30 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points
1597 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

419 points
523 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1431 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1137 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

415 points
449 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

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 GHz
36% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W
95 W
36% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

3
49% significantly more memory channels
2

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
860th 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
2014 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i7-920 vs A10-7850K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-920 is faster than the A10-7850K. Despite this, the A10-7850K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-920 has significantly more cores than the A10-7850K. Indeed, the Core i7-920 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A10-7850K. It also has more threads than the A10-7850K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A10-7850K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-920. The A10-7850K outputs less heat than Core i7-920 thanks to a slightly 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 A10-7850K

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.

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