AMD A10-7300 vs Intel Core i3-550

A10-7300 vs Core i3-550 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-550 beats the A10-7300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-7300 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the A10-7300 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-550 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-550 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the A10-7300. A A10-7300 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-550 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the A10-7300 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.