AMD A8-5550M vs Intel Pentium E5200

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 E5200

Price

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$ 32.02

$ 12.98 significantly less expensive

$ 45.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

635 points

1% slightly better overall score

627 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1206 points

1349 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

483 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

450 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

466 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

432 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

884 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

533 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

336 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

300 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

634 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

443 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

282 points

Identical

282 points

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

2.5 GHz

19% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

85% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,051st of 1,089

1,053rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June

2008 August

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A8-5550M vs Pentium E5200 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-5550M is faster than the Pentium E5200. Despite this, the Pentium E5200 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 Pentium E5200 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium E5200. Our comparison shows that the Pentium E5200 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A8-5550M. A A8-5550M CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium E5200 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.