AMD A8-5500 vs Intel Core i7-3635QM

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1380 points

1425 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2576 points

20% slightly better gaming score

2141 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points

1221 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points

1185 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.88 points

38.51 points

177% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1228 points

2446 points

99% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

444 points

636 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

911 points

1792 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

377 points

533 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

866th of 1,118

851st of 1,118

Family

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August

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 i7-3635QM specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3635QM beats the A8-5500 in overall performance. Despite this, the A8-5500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-3635QM has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A8-5500 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the A8-5500. The Core i7-3635QM 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.