AMD A8-5550M vs Intel Core i3-4000M

Compare AMD 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i3 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
$ 26.09 significantly less expensive
$ 58.11

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

635 points
915 points
44% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1206 points
1829 points
51% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

483 points
674 points
39% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

466 points
646 points
38% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

884 points
1400 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

336 points
698 points
107% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

634 points
1447 points
128% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

282 points
720 points
155% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
2.4 GHz
14% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
5% slightly lower TDP
37 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,051st of 1,089
977th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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4th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June
2013 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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No

A8-5550M vs Core i3-4000M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-4000M beats the A8-5550M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5550M in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the A8-5550M has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-4000M that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-4000M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A8-5550M. A A8-5550M CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-4000M CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. 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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