Intel Core i5-2430M vs AMD A8-5500B

Compare Intel Core 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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$ 62.02

$ 49.01

$ 13.01 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1142 points

1173 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2252 points

1% slightly better gaming score

2216 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

851 points

887 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

817 points

851 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.39 points

53% significantly higher Blender score

11.36 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

955 points

1255 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

451 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

875 points

971 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

438 points

9% slightly 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

2.4 GHz

3.2 GHz

33% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

940th of 1,118

932nd of 1,118

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-2430M vs A8-5500B benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-5500B performs better than the Core i5-2430M. Despite this, the Core i5-2430M 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. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-5500B has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-2430M.

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 i5-2430M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.