Intel Core i3-8130U vs AMD A8-5500

Compare Intel 8th 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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$ 639.00

$ 590.00

$ 49.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1216 points

1380 points

13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2360 points

2576 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

910 points

1049 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

872 points

1007 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.90 points

28% slightly higher Blender score

13.88 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1873 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1228 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

984 points

121% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

444 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1902 points

108% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

911 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1019 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

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

897th of 1,089

844th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-8130U vs A8-5500 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-8130U performs better than the A8-5500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5500 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 i3-8130U 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.

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 i3-8130U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.