AMD A8-5550M vs Intel Core 2 Duo T6400

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

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 32.02
$ 97.93 significantly less expensive
$ 129.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

635 points
4% slightly better overall score
605 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1206 points
1285 points
6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

483 points
10% slightly better multitasking score
438 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

466 points
10% slightly better heavy workload score
421 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

634 points
71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
369 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

282 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
233 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
100% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed
2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
Identical
35 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,051st of 1,089
1,059th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June
2009 February

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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A8-5550M vs Core 2 Duo T6400 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-5550M is faster than the Core 2 Duo T6400. Despite this, the Core 2 Duo T6400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the A8-5550M has significantly more cores than the Core 2 Duo T6400. Indeed, the A8-5550M has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core 2 Duo T6400. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Duo T6400. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A8-5550M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Duo T6400. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 A8-5550M has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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