AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Core i3-10100F. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  AMD A8-5000 Intel Core i 10000
• Family
  AMD A Intel Core i3
• Generation
  2 10
• Predecessor
  - Intel Core i3-9100F
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  3.6 GHz 3.6 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  4 4
• CPU Threads
  4 8
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.9 GHz 4.3 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  3.9 GHz 4.1 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  11 -
• Execution units
  4 -
• Generation
  4 -
• GPU Frequency
  760 MHz -
• GPU name
  AMD Radeon HD 7560D None
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo -
• Max. displays
  2 -
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB -
• Release date
  Q3/2012 -
• Shader
  256 -
• Technology
  32 nm -

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  Decode No
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i3-10100F and AMD A8-5600K. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  - 128 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1866 DDR4-2666
• PCIe lanes
  - 16
• PCIe version
  - 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A8-5600K and Intel Core i3-10100F Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  - 100 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  100 W 65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A8-5600K and Intel Core i3-10100F, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Trinity (Piledriver) Comet Lake S
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  4 MB 6 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2012 Q4/2020
• Socket
  FM2 LGA 1200
• Technology
  32 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d