AMD A8-5500 vs Intel Core i3-4160

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i3 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i3-4160

Price

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$ 590.00

$ 98.00

$ 492.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1380 points

1444 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2576 points

2813 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points

1081 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points

1038 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.88 points

23.82 points

71% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1228 points

1850 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

444 points

962 points

116% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

911 points

2084 points

128% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

377 points

1076 points

185% 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

65 W

54 W

20% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

844th of 1,089

823rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

A8-5500 vs Core i3-4160 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-4160 performs better than the A8-5500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5500 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. The Core i3-4160 outputs less heat than A8-5500 thanks to a slightly 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 A8-5500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.