Intel Core i5-3210M 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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$ 39.99

$ 9.02 slightly less expensive

$ 49.01

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1066 points

1173 points

10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2093 points

2216 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

796 points

887 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

763 points

851 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

16.49 points

45% significantly higher Blender score

11.36 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

974 points

1255 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

480 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

451 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

993 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

971 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

489 points

22% 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

2.5 GHz

3.2 GHz

28% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

931st of 1,089

906th of 1,089

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-3210M vs A8-5500B benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-5500B performs better than the Core i5-3210M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3210M 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 i5-3210M.

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 i5-3210M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.