AMD A10-6800K vs AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

Last updated: 2024-04-12

CPU comparison with benchmarks


AMD A10-6800K		AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
CPU comparison AMD A10-6800K or AMD Ryzen 7 3700X - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results. The AMD A10-6800K has 4 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.40 GHz. Up to GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The AMD A10-6800K was released in Q2/2013. The AMD Ryzen 7 3700X has 8 cores with 16 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.40 GHz. The CPU supports up to 128 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen 7 3700X was released in Q3/2019.

AMD A (112)	Family	AMD Ryzen 7 (67)
AMD A10-6000 (4)	CPU group	AMD Ryzen 3000 (15)
3	Generation	3
Richland (Piledriver)	Architecture	Matisse (Zen 2)
Desktop / Server	Segment	Desktop / Server
--	Predecessor	AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
--	Successor	AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

CPU Cores and Base Frequency The AMD A10-6800K is a 4 core processor with a clock frequency of 4.10 GHz (4.40 GHz). The AMD Ryzen 7 3700X has 8 CPU cores with a clock frequency of 3.60 GHz (4.40 GHz).
AMD A10-6800K	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
4	Cores	8
4	Threads	16
normal	Core architecture	normal
No	Hyperthreading	Yes
Yes	Overclocking ?	Yes
4.10 GHz	Frequency	3.60 GHz
4.40 GHz	Turbo Frequency (1 Core)	4.40 GHz
4.40 GHz	Turbo Frequency (All Cores)	4.00 GHz

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.
AMD A10-6800K	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
--	AI hardware	--
--	AI specifications	--

Internal Graphics The integrated graphics unit of a processor is not only responsible for the pure image output on the system, but can also significantly increase the efficiency of the system with the support of modern video codecs.
AMD Radeon HD 8670D	GPU	no iGPU
0.84 GHz	GPU frequency	--
--	GPU (Turbo)	--
5	GPU Generation	--
32 nm	Technology
2	Max. displays
6	Compute units	--
384	Shader	--
No	Hardware Raytracing	No
No	Frame Generation	No
2 GB	Max. GPU Memory	--
11.2	DirectX Version	--

Hardware codec support A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.
AMD Radeon HD 8670D	GPU	no iGPU
No	Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No
No	Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No
Decode	Codec h264	No
No	Codec VP9	No
No	Codec VP8	No
No	Codec AV1	No
Decode	Codec AVC	No
Decode	Codec VC-1	No
Decode / Encode	Codec JPEG	No

Memory & PCIe The AMD A10-6800K supports a maximum of GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen 7 3700X can connect up to 128 GB of memory in 2 memory channels.
AMD A10-6800K	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
DDR3-2133	Memory	DDR4-3200
	Max. Memory	128 GB
2 (Dual Channel)	Memory channels	2 (Dual Channel)
34.2 GB/s	Max. Bandwidth	51.2 GB/s
No	ECC	Yes
--	L2 Cache	4.00 MB
4.00 MB	L3 Cache	32.00 MB
--	PCIe version	4.0
--	PCIe lanes	20
--	PCIe Bandwidth	39.4 GB/s
Thermal Management The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of a processor specifies the required cooling solution. The AMD A10-6800K has a TDP of 100 W, that of the AMD Ryzen 7 3700X is 65 W.
AMD A10-6800K	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
100 W	TDP (PL1 / PBP)	65 W
--	TDP (PL2)	--
--	TDP up	--
--	TDP down	--
--	Tjunction max.	95 °C
Technical details The AMD A10-6800K has a 4.00 MB cache, while the AMD Ryzen 7 3700X cache has a total of 36.00 MB.
AMD A10-6800K	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
32 nm	Technology	7 nm
Unknown	Chip design	Chiplet
x86-64 (64 bit)	Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)
SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4	ISA extensions	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
FM2	Socket	AM4 (PGA 1331)
AMD-V	Virtualization	AMD-V, SVM
Yes	AES-NI	Yes
Windows 10, Linux	Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Q2/2013	Release date	Q3/2019
120 $	Release price	330 $

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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks

AMD A10-6800K (40%)

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (100%)

⌀ Multi core performance in 5 CPU benchmarks

AMD A10-6800K (33%)

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (90%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	AMD A10-6800K 4C 4T @ 4.40 GHz	541 (43%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz	1252 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD A10-6800K 4C 4T @ 4.40 GHz	1501 (17%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz	8732 (100%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.


	AMD A10-6800K 4C 4T @ 4.40 GHz	5014 (22%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz	22674 (100%)

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.


	AMD A10-6800K 4C 4T @ 4.40 GHz	309.5 (100%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz	160.8 (52%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	AMD A10-6800K 4C 4T @ 4.10 GHz	813 (15%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8C 16T @ 3.60 GHz	5447 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	AMD A10-6800K 4C 4T @ 4.40 GHz	74 (36%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz	204 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD A10-6800K 4C 4T @ 4.40 GHz	272 (13%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz	2114 (100%)

Cinebench 2024 (Single-Core)

The Cinebench 2024 benchmark is based on the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxon's 3D program Cinema 4D. The benchmark runs are each 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.


	AMD A10-6800K 4C 4T @ 4.40 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz	76 (100%)

Cinebench 2024 (Multi-Core)

The Multi-Core test of the Cinebench 2024 benchmark uses all cpu cores to render using the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxons Cinema 4D. The benchmark run is 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.


	AMD A10-6800K 4C 4T @ 4.40 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz	736 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	AMD A10-6800K 4C 4T @ 4.40 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz	1294 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD A10-6800K 4C 4T @ 4.40 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz	12355 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.


	AMD A10-6800K 4C 4T @ 4.40 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz	1637 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.


	AMD A10-6800K 4C 4T @ 4.40 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz	8693 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	AMD A10-6800K 4C 4T @ 4.40 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz	501 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD A10-6800K 4C 4T @ 4.40 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz	4834 (100%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.


	AMD A10-6800K AMD Radeon HD 8670D @ 0.84 GHz	648 (100%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X @ 0.00 GHz	0 (0%)

Blender 3.1 Benchmark

In the Blender Benchmark 3.1, the scenes "monster", "junkshop" and "classroom" are rendered and the time required by the system is measured. In our benchmark we test the CPU and not the graphics card. Blender 3.1 was presented as a standalone version in March 2022.


	AMD A10-6800K 4C 4T @ 4.40 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz	173 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Single-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	AMD A10-6800K 4C 4T @ 4.40 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz	509 (100%)

Devices using this processor
AMD A10-6800K	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
Unknown	One Gaming PC Ryzen 7 3700X HP Pavilion TP01-0007ng silber (8BS43EA#ABD) HP Omen PC Obelisk 875-0255ng (8FH42EA#ABD)

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