AMD A8-5550M vs Intel Pentium N4200

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

635 points

641 points

0.94% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1206 points

1245 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

483 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

475 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

466 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

454 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

884 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

658 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

336 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

260 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

634 points

716 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

282 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

272 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

90% significantly higher clock speed

1.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

6 W

483% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,051st of 1,089

1,048th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium N Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June

2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A8-5550M vs Pentium N4200 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-5550M is faster than the Pentium N4200. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium N4200 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A8-5550M has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium N4200. The Pentium N4200 outputs less heat than A8-5550M thanks to a 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.