AMD A8-6410 vs Intel Core i3-550

A8-6410 vs Core i3-550 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-550 is faster than the A8-6410. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-6410 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the A8-6410 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-550 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-550 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the A8-6410. A A8-6410 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-550 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 A8-6410 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.