AMD A8-5500 vs Intel Core i5-3230M

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 i5-3230M

Price

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$ 590.00

$ 99.99

$ 490.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1380 points

27% slightly better overall score

1086 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2576 points

21% slightly better gaming score

2128 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points

29% slightly better multitasking score

812 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points

29% slightly better heavy workload score

780 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.88 points

17.73 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1228 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1041 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

444 points

523 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

911 points

1017 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

377 points

505 points

33% 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

35 W

85% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

844th of 1,089

927th of 1,089

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A8-5500 vs Core i5-3230M comparison

In our benchmarks, the A8-5500 beats the Core i5-3230M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3230M in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. The Core i5-3230M 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.

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.