Intel Core i3-3220 vs AMD A8-5500B

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

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AMD A8-5500B

Price

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$ 91.98

$ 49.01

$ 42.97 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1279 points

9% slightly better overall score

1173 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2425 points

9% slightly better gaming score

2216 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

968 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

887 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

929 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

851 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.91 points

57% significantly higher Blender score

11.36 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1097 points

1255 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

526 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

451 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1092 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

971 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

531 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

399 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

3.3 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

875th of 1,089

906th of 1,089

Family

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-3220 vs A8-5500B comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-3220 performs better than the A8-5500B. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5500B 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 Core i3-3220 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A8-5500B.

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. Indeed, the Core i3-3220 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.