Intel Core i7-3770S vs AMD A8-5500B

Core i7-3770S vs A8-5500B comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-3770S performs better than the A8-5500B. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5500B in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-3770S has significantly more cores than the A8-5500B. Indeed, the Core i7-3770S has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A8-5500B. It also has more threads than the A8-5500B. Our comparison shows that the A8-5500B has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3770S.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-3770S has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.