AMD A8-4500M vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8400

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

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Intel Core 2 Duo E8400

Price

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$ 30.34

$ 23.03

$ 7.31 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

802 points

818 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1549 points

1767 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

600 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

586 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

575 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

563 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

10.48 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

10.18 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

599 points

622 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

281 points

352 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

646 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

615 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

288 points

373 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

85% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,003rd of 1,089

999th of 1,089

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 February

A8-4500M vs Core 2 Duo E8400 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the A8-4500M beats the Core 2 Duo E8400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core 2 Duo E8400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the A8-4500M has more threads. A A8-4500M CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Duo E8400 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 A8-4500M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.