AMD A8-4500M vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8500

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 E8500

Price

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$ 30.34

$ 79.61 significantly less expensive

$ 109.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

802 points

862 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1549 points

1899 points

22% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

600 points

611 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

575 points

587 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

10.48 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

8.12 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

599 points

692 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

281 points

403 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

646 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

638 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

288 points

392 points

36% 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

987th 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 E8500 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core 2 Duo E8500 performs better than the A8-4500M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-4500M in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the A8-4500M has more threads. A A8-4500M CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Duo E8500 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. Indeed, the A8-4500M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.