AMD A8-5500 vs Intel Xeon E5-450

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

1467 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2576 points

2728 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points

1109 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points

1061 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.88 points

19.01 points

36% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1228 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1071 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

444 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

378 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

911 points

1100 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

377 points

391 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

816th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2007 November

A8-5500 vs Xeon E5-450 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-450 is faster than the A8-5500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5500 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-450 has significantly more cores than the A8-5500. Indeed, the Xeon E5-450 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A8-5500. But they both have the same number of threads.

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.