AMD A10-7850K vs Intel Core i5-3550S

A10-7850K vs Core i5-3550S benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A10-7850K performs better than the Core i5-3550S. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3550S in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-3550S has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A10-7850K has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A10-7850K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3550S. Also, the A10-7850K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-3550S outputs less heat than A10-7850K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the A10-7850K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.