AMD A8-5545M vs Intel Core i7 Q 720

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

814 points

907 points

11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1574 points

7% slightly better gaming score

1463 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

610 points

740 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

586 points

709 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

8.08 points

13.97 points

72% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

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Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,000th of 1,089

981st of 1,089

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A8-5545M vs Core i7 Q 720 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7 Q 720 beats the A8-5545M in overall performance. Despite this, the A8-5545M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7 Q 720 has more threads.

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.