AMD A8-5500B vs Intel N100

A8-5500B vs N100 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the N100 beats the A8-5500B in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5500B in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the N100 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A8-5500B has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A8-5500B has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the N100. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the A8-5500B has significantly more L2 cache than the N100

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 A8-5500B has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.