AMD A8-5545M vs AMD Athlon II X2 220

A8-5545M vs Athlon II X2 220 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the A8-5545M beats the Athlon II X2 220 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X2 220 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the A8-5545M has significantly more cores than the Athlon II X2 220. Indeed, the A8-5545M has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Athlon II X2 220. It also has more threads than the Athlon II X2 220.

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. For instance, the A8-5545M has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.