AMD A8-5550M vs Intel Pentium B940

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

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Intel Pentium B940

Price

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$ 32.02

$ 231.98 significantly less expensive

$ 264.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

635 points

660 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1206 points

1389 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

483 points

0.62% slightly better multitasking score

480 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

466 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

461 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

884 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

627 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

336 points

345 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

634 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

550 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

282 points

317 points

12% slightly 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

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

1,045th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June

2011 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A8-5550M vs Pentium B940 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium B940 is faster than the A8-5550M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5550M in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the A8-5550M has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium B940 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium B940. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-5550M has a slightly higher clock speed than the Pentium B940. 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.

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.