AMD A8-5545M vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8600

A8-5545M vs Core 2 Duo E8600 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-5545M performs better than the Core 2 Duo E8600. Despite this, the Core 2 Duo E8600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the A8-5545M has significantly more cores than the Core 2 Duo E8600. Indeed, the A8-5545M has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core 2 Duo E8600. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Duo E8600. A A8-5545M CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Duo E8600 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. For instance, the A8-5545M has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.