Intel Core i3-6100T vs AMD A8-5500B

Compare Intel 6th 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 A8-5500B

Price

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$ 149.95

$ 49.01

$ 100.94 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1166 points

1173 points

0.60% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2253 points

1% slightly better gaming score

2216 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

881 points

887 points

0.68% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

849 points

851 points

0.24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23.39 points

105% significantly higher Blender score

11.36 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1255 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

996 points

120% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

451 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2088 points

115% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

971 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1054 points

164% significantly 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

3.2 GHz

Identical

3.2 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

907th of 1,089

906th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i3-6100T vs A8-5500B specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-5500B is faster than the Core i3-6100T. Despite this, the Core i3-6100T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Both the Core i3-6100T and A8-5500B have the same clock speed.

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. Indeed, the Core i3-6100T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.