AMD A8-5500 vs Intel Xeon X5450

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 590.00
$ 59.01
$ 530.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1380 points
1492 points
8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2576 points
2733 points
6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points
1143 points
8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points
1098 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1228 points
1348 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

444 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
426 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

911 points
1123 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

377 points
389 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
84% significantly lower TDP
120 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

844th of 1,089
810th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2007 November

A8-5500 vs Xeon X5450 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon X5450 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 X5450 has significantly more cores than the A8-5500. Indeed, the Xeon X5450 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A8-5500. But they both have the same number of threads. A A8-5500 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5450 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.

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