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Benchmarks for the AMD A8-3870K APU can be found below. Release dates, price and performance comparisons are also listed when available. This is made using thousands of PerformanceTest benchmark results and is updated daily.
Is the AMD A8-3870K APU Good for Gaming?
This is a fairly old CPU that is no longer competitive with newer CPUs. [More ...]
Description:
Class: Desktop
Socket: FM1
Clockspeed: 3.0 GHz
Cores: 4 Threads: 4
Typical TDP: 100 W
Cache per CPU Package:
L1 Instruction Cache: 4 x 64 KB
L1 Data Cache: 4 x 64 KB
L2 Cache: 4 x 1024 KB
Other names: AMD A8-3870 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
CPU First Seen on Charts: Q4 2011
CPUmark/$Price: 9.99
Overall Rank:
3041st fastest in multithreading out of 5153 CPUs
2988th fastest in single threading out of 5153 CPUs
884th fastest in out of 1449 Desktop CPUs
Last Price Change: $234.79 USD (2025-05-24)
Integer Math | 6,960 MOps/Sec |
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Floating Point Math | 5,349 MOps/Sec |
Find Prime Numbers | 11 Million Primes/Sec |
Random String Sorting | 6,401 Thousand Strings/Sec |
Data Encryption | 605.7 MBytes/Sec |
Data Compression | 52,544 KBytes/Sec |
Physics | 195 Frames/Sec |
Extended Instructions | 1,292 Million Matrices/Sec |
Single Thread | 1,214 MOps/Sec |
Merchant | Price | Purchase |
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Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
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Intel Core i9-13900K | 58,658 | |
Intel Core i9-12900K | 41,296 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 39,017 | |
Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 22,151 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 21,861 | |
Intel Core i5-12400F | 19,486 | |
Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 18,166 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 17,705 | |
Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,650 | |
Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,146 | |
AMD A8-3870K APU | 2,345 |
Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
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AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 227.01 | |
Intel Core i5-12400F | 186.47 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 168.17 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 150.65 | |
Intel Core i9-12900K | 136.17 | |
Intel Core i9-13900K | 133.58 | |
Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 50.46 | |
AMD A8-3870K APU | 9.99 | |
Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | NA | |
Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | NA | |
Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | NA |
Processor | Average Thread Rating | |
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Intel Core i9-13900K | 4,610 | |
Intel Core i9-12900K | 4,138 | |
Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,900 | |
Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 3,837 | |
Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,680 | |
Intel Core i5-12400F | 3,477 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 3,469 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 3,364 | |
Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 2,921 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 2,563 | |
AMD A8-3870K APU | 1,214 |
Baseline | CPU Mark | |
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BL2701501 - Jun 17 2025 | 2807 | |
BL2701462 - Jun 17 2025 | 3092 | |
BL2658764 - May 29 2025 | 2971 | |
BL2632768 - May 18 2025 | 2834 | |
BL2592489 - Apr 30 2025 | 2601 |
Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
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AMD A8-3870K APU | 2,345 | |
Intel Core i5-760 @ 2.80GHz vs AMD A8-3870K APU | 2,658 (+13.4%) | |
Intel Core2 Quad Q9650 @ 3.00GHz vs AMD A8-3870K APU | 2,491 (+6.3%) | |
Intel Core i3-3240 @ 3.40GHz vs AMD A8-3870K APU | 2,345 (+0.0%) | |
Intel Core i5-3470T @ 2.90GHz vs AMD A8-3870K APU | 3,002 (+28.1%) | |
Intel Core i3-4150T @ 3.00GHz vs AMD A8-3870K APU | 2,875 (+22.6%) | |
AMD Phenom II X4 980 vs AMD A8-3870K APU | 2,839 (+21.1%) | |
AMD FX-4100 Quad-Core vs AMD A8-3870K APU | 2,623 (+11.9%) | |
Intel Core i5-670 @ 3.47GHz vs AMD A8-3870K APU | 2,533 (+8.0%) | |
AMD Athlon II X4 651 Quad-Core vs AMD A8-3870K APU | 2,443 (+4.2%) | |
AMD Phenom II X4 940 vs AMD A8-3870K APU | 2,351 (+0.3%) | |
Intel Core i3-2125 @ 3.30GHz vs AMD A8-3870K APU | 2,090 (-10.8%) | |
AMD A6-3650 APU vs AMD A8-3870K APU | 2,090 (-10.9%) |
Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
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AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D | 12,454 | |
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D | 12,151 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D | 11,301 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D | 10,843 | |
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K | 10,588 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D | 10,482 | |
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 10,276 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D | 9,804 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D | 9,780 | |
Intel Core Ultra 5 245K | 9,657 | |
Intel Core Ultra 7 265K | 9,524 | |
Intel Core Ultra 9 285 | 9,503 | |
AMD A8-3870K APU | 257 |