Intel Core i3-4130 vs AMD A8-5500

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs AMD 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD A8-5500

Price

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$ 41.60

$ 548.40 significantly less expensive

$ 590.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1365 points

1380 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2713 points

5% slightly better gaming score

2576 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1014 points

1049 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

973 points

1007 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.00 points

94% significantly higher Blender score

13.88 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1809 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1228 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

925 points

108% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

444 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points

119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

911 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1018 points

170% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

377 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

54 W

20% slightly lower TDP

65 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

871st of 1,118

866th of 1,118

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i3-4130 vs A8-5500 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the A8-5500 beats the Core i3-4130 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-4130 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. A Core i3-4130 CPU outputs less heat than a A8-5500 CPU because of its slightly 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. Indeed, the Core i3-4130 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.