AMD A8-5500 vs Intel Core i7-860

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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Intel Core i7-860

Price

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$ 590.00

$ 54.25

$ 535.75 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1380 points

1632 points

18% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2576 points

2607 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points

1342 points

27% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points

1289 points

28% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.88 points

30.74 points

121% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1228 points

1475 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

444 points

0.68% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

441 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

911 points

1475 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

377 points

451 points

19% 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

46% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

844th of 1,089

783rd of 1,089

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A8-5500 vs Core i7-860 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-5500 performs better than the Core i7-860. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-860 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-860 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A8-5500 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the A8-5500. A A8-5500 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-860 CPU because of its 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.