AMD A8-5550M vs Intel Celeron G1610

Compare AMD 4 core CPU vs Intel Celeron G Series 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Celeron G1610

Price

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$ 32.02

$ 16.98 significantly less expensive

$ 49.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

635 points

857 points

34% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1206 points

1869 points

54% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

483 points

612 points

26% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

466 points

587 points

25% slightly better heavy workload score

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Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

884 points

0.34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

881 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

336 points

479 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

634 points

684 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

282 points

407 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

2.6 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

57% significantly lower TDP

55 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,051st of 1,089

991st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Celeron G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June

2013 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

A8-5550M vs Celeron G1610 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-5550M is faster than the Celeron G1610. Despite this, the Celeron G1610 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the A8-5550M has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Celeron G1610 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Celeron G1610. Our comparison shows that the Celeron G1610 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A8-5550M. A A8-5550M CPU outputs less heat than a Celeron G1610 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 A8-5550M has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.