AMD A8-5550M vs Intel Pentium G3240

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

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Price

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$ 32.02
$ 29.00
$ 3.02 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

635 points
1091 points
71% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1206 points
2377 points
97% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

483 points
780 points
61% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

466 points
751 points
61% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

884 points
946 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

336 points
542 points
61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

634 points
903 points
42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

282 points
529 points
87% 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
100% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
3.1 GHz
47% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
51% significantly lower TDP
53 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,054th of 1,092
927th of 1,092

Family

The product line

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Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June
2014 May

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
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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Yes

A8-5550M vs Pentium G3240 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium G3240 performs better than the A8-5550M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5550M in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the A8-5550M has significantly more cores than the Pentium G3240. Indeed, the A8-5550M has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium G3240. It also has more threads than the Pentium G3240. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G3240 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the A8-5550M. A A8-5550M CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G3240 CPU because of its significantly 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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