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AMD A12-9800 vs Intel Core i3-8100

Last updated: 2026-05-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 67 %

AMD A12-9800

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i3-8100

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 56 %

AMD A12-9800

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i3-8100

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 4.20 GHz

655 pts

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

912 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

1,979 pts

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

3,618 pts

Cinebench R20 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 4.20 GHz

254 cb

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

364 cb

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 4.20 GHz

607

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

971

Cinebench R20 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

762 cb

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

1,444 cb

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

1,827

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

3,134

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge)

1,143

Intel UHD Graphics 630

422

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 4.20 GHz

100 cb

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

154 cb

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

326 cb

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

616 cb

More benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	AMD A12-9800	Intel Core i3-8100
Family	AMD A (112)	Intel Core i3 (205)
CPU group	AMD A12-9800 (1)	Intel Core i 8000 (20)
Architecture	Excavator (Bristol Ridge)	Coffee Lake S
Technology	28 nm	14 nm
Segment	Desktop	Desktop
Socket	AM4 (PGA 1331)	LGA 1151-2
Predecessor		Intel Core i3-7100
Successor		Intel Core i3-9100

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD A12-9800	Intel Core i3-8100
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x Excavator	4x
Frequency:	3.80 GHz	3.60 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	4.20 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):
L2-Cache	2.00 MB
L3-Cache		6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	AMD A12-9800	Intel Core i3-8100
GPU name	AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge)	Intel UHD Graphics 630
GPU frequency	1.11 GHz	0.35 - 1.10 GHz
CUs / Shader	8 / 512	24 / 192
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	3
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	64 GB
Technology	28 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q2/2016	Q4/2017

NPU AI performance

Wischen	AMD A12-9800	Intel Core i3-8100
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD A12-9800	Intel Core i3-8100
Memory	DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s)	DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe	3.0 x 8	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	7.9 GB/s	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	AMD A12-9800	Intel Core i3-8100
TDP	65 W	65 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	90 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	AMD A12-9800	Intel Core i3-8100
Chip design	Unknown	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, FMA4	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q3/2017	Q4/2017
Release price		117 $
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of AMD A12-9800 is 4.1 stars (12 ratings), while Intel Core i3-8100 has received 4.1 stars (82 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

AMD A12-9800
4C / 4T · 3.80 - 4.20 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i3-8100
4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

★★★★★