Intel Core i5-3340M vs AMD A8-5500B

Core i5-3340M vs A8-5500B specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3340M beats the A8-5500B in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5500B 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. Our comparison shows that the A8-5500B has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3340M.

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 i5-3340M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.