AMD A8-5500 vs Intel Core i7-4600M

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 2 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

1394 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2576 points

2774 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

1034 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

992 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.88 points

30.90 points

122% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1228 points

1735 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

444 points

961 points

116% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

911 points

1926 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

377 points

1013 points

168% 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

37 W

75% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

844th of 1,089

841st of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 November

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 i7-4600M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4600M is faster than the A8-5500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5500 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 i7-4600M 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the A8-5500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.