Intel Core i3-7020U vs AMD A8-5500B

Compare Intel 7th 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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$ 1126.00

$ 49.01

$ 1076.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

999 points

1173 points

17% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1994 points

2216 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

740 points

887 points

19% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

710 points

851 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.70 points

64% significantly higher Blender score

11.36 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1475 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1255 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

726 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

451 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1491 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

971 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

734 points

83% 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

2.3 GHz

3.2 GHz

39% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

948th of 1,089

906th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-7020U vs A8-5500B benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-5500B is faster than the Core i3-7020U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-7020U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A8-5500B has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-7020U.

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 i3-7020U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.