AMD A8-5500 vs Intel Core i3-550

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 i3-550

Price

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$ 590.00

$ 129.95

$ 460.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1380 points

31% slightly better overall score

1048 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2576 points

30% slightly better gaming score

1976 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points

31% slightly better multitasking score

795 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points

31% slightly better heavy workload score

763 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.88 points

44% significantly higher Blender score

9.59 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1228 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

911 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

444 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

417 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

911 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

899 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

377 points

437 points

15% slightly 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

12% slightly lower TDP

73 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

844th of 1,089

934th of 1,089

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

A8-5500 vs Core i3-550 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-5500 is faster than the Core i3-550. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-550 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. A A8-5500 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-550 CPU because of its 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.