Intel Celeron G550 vs AMD PRO A8-8600B

Compare Intel Celeron 2 core CPU vs AMD PRO A-Series A8 APU for Laptops 2 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

801 points

834 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1755 points

6% slightly better gaming score

1650 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

570 points

617 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

548 points

589 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

661 points

982 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

395 points

411 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

62% significantly higher clock speed

1.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB

2 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,004th of 1,089

994th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Celeron

PRO A-Series A8 APU for Laptops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Celeron G550 vs PRO A8-8600B comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the PRO A8-8600B performs better than the Celeron G550. Despite this, the Celeron G550 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the PRO A8-8600B has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Celeron G550 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the PRO A8-8600B. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the PRO A8-8600B has significantly more L2 cache than the Celeron G550

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Celeron G550 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.