AMD A8-5500 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550

A8-5500 vs Core 2 Quad Q9550 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-5500 is faster than the Core 2 Quad Q9550. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Quad Q9550 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 2 Quad Q9550 has significantly more cores than the A8-5500. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q9550 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A8-5500. But they both have the same number of threads. A A8-5500 CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Quad Q9550 CPU because of its 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.