AMD A8-5545M vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8500

A8-5545M vs Core 2 Duo E8500 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the A8-5545M beats the Core 2 Duo E8500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core 2 Duo E8500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the A8-5545M has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core 2 Duo E8500 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Duo E8500. A A8-5545M CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Duo E8500 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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