Intel Core i3-7100U vs AMD A8-5500

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 A8-5500

Price

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$ 1161.00

$ 590.00

$ 571.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

960 points

1380 points

43% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1881 points

2576 points

36% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

720 points

1049 points

45% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

693 points

1007 points

45% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.26 points

38% slightly higher Blender score

13.88 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1556 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1228 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

757 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

444 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1571 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

911 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

770 points

104% 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

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

962nd of 1,089

844th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-7100U vs A8-5500 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-5500 is faster than the Core i3-7100U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-7100U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. A Core i3-7100U CPU outputs less heat than a A8-5500 CPU because of its significantly 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 i3-7100U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.