AMD A8-5500 vs Intel Xeon E5-440

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs Intel 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

1441 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2576 points

2641 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points

1102 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points

1058 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.88 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

11.40 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

911 points

1022 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

377 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

361 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

23% slightly lower TDP

80 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

844th of 1,089

824th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 February

A8-5500 vs Xeon E5-440 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-440 beats the A8-5500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5500 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-440 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A8-5500 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads.

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.