AMD A10-8700P vs Intel Core i3-550

Compare AMD A10-Series APU for Laptops 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1000 points

1048 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1959 points

1976 points

0.87% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

747 points

795 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

717 points

763 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

14.21 points

48% significantly higher Blender score

9.59 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

951 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

911 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

351 points

417 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1076 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

899 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

487 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

437 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.8 GHz

3.2 GHz

77% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

108% significantly lower TDP

73 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

947th of 1,089

934th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A10-Series APU for Laptops

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A10-8700P vs Core i3-550 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-550 performs better than the A10-8700P. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-8700P in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-550 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the A10-8700P. A A10-8700P 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.

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 A10-8700P has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.