AMD A8-4500M vs Intel Core i5-4200U

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 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

802 points

903 points

12% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1549 points

1763 points

13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

600 points

678 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

575 points

654 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

10.48 points

14.77 points

40% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

599 points

1358 points

126% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

281 points

691 points

145% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

646 points

1401 points

116% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

288 points

732 points

154% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

15 W

133% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,003rd of 1,089

984th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A8-4500M vs Core i5-4200U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-4200U performs better than the A8-4500M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-4500M in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. The Core i5-4200U outputs less heat than A8-4500M thanks to a 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.