Intel Core i5-3230M 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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$ 99.99

$ 49.01

$ 50.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1086 points

1173 points

8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2128 points

2216 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

812 points

887 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

780 points

851 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.73 points

56% significantly higher Blender score

11.36 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1041 points

1255 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

523 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

451 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1017 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

971 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

505 points

26% 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

2.6 GHz

3.2 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

927th of 1,089

906th of 1,089

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-3230M vs A8-5500B comparison

In our benchmarks, the A8-5500B beats the Core i5-3230M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3230M in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number 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 i5-3230M.

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 i5-3230M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.