A8-5500 vs Core i7-4712MQ specs and performance
Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-4712MQ performs better than the A8-5500. Despite this, the A8-5500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-4712MQ has significantly more cores than the A8-5500. Indeed, the Core i7-4712MQ has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A8-5500. It also has more threads than the A8-5500. The Core i7-4712MQ 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.
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