AMD A8-5550M vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8600

A8-5550M vs Core 2 Duo E8600 comparison

In our benchmarks, the A8-5550M beats the Core 2 Duo E8600 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core 2 Duo E8600 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 Core 2 Duo E8600 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Duo E8600. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core 2 Duo E8600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the A8-5550M. A A8-5550M 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 A8-5550M has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.