AMD A8-5500 vs Intel Celeron N4500

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

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Intel Celeron N4500

Price

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$ 590.00

$ 303.15

$ 286.85 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1380 points

116% significantly better overall score

638 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2576 points

87% significantly better gaming score

1374 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points

126% significantly better multitasking score

464 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points

125% significantly better heavy workload score

447 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.88 points

102% significantly higher Blender score

6.84 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

911 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

710 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

377 points

435 points

15% 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

65 W

6 W

983% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

844th of 1,089

1,050th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Celeron N Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4 LPDDR4x

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A8-5500 vs Celeron N4500 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-5500 is faster than the Celeron N4500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron N4500 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the A8-5500 has more threads. The Celeron N4500 outputs less heat than A8-5500 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the A8-5500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.