AMD A8-5550M vs Intel Core M-5Y51

AMD A8-5550M
AMD Socket FS1r2MOBILE
2100 MHz / Cores: 4 / Jun 2013
AMD A8-5550M
Intel Core M-5Y51
MOBILE
1100 MHz / Cores: 2 / Oct 2014
Intel Core M-5Y51

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD A8-5550M
    110%
  • Intel Core M-5Y51
    100%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD A8-5550M
    100%
  • Intel Core M-5Y51
    111%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD A8-5550M
    122%
  • Intel Core M-5Y51
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD A8-5550M

Much higher multi threaded performance (around 22% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
Around 10% higher average synthetic performance.

Reasons to consider Intel Core M-5Y51

11% higher single threaded performance.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).

AMD A8-5550M

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD A8-5550M

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD A8-5550M

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD A8-5550M

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

AMD A8-5550MIntel Core M-5Y51
MMX
3DNow!
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSE4A
AMD64
CnQ
NX bit
AMD-V
SSSE3
SSE4.2
AVX
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
Hyper-Threading

Architecture

AMD A8-5550MIntel Core M-5Y51
ArchitectureAMD PiledrivervsIntel_Broadwell
MarketMobilevsMobile
Memory SupportDDR3vsDDR4
CodenameRichlandvsBroadwell-Y
Release DateJun 2013vsOct 2014

Cores

AMD A8-5550MIntel Core M-5Y51
Cores4vs2
Threads4vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon HD 8550GvsIntel HD 5300

Cache

AMD A8-5550MIntel Core M-5Y51
L1 Cache128 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache1024 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache0 KBvs4096 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD A8-5550MIntel Core M-5Y51
SocketAMD Socket FS1r2vs
Max Case Temp71°Cvsunknown
PackageuPGAvs
Die Size246mm²vs50mm²
Process32 nmvs14 nm

Performance

AMD A8-5550MIntel Core M-5Y51
Cpu Frequency2100 MHzvs1100 MHz
Turbo Clock3100 MHzvs2600 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltage1.475 Vvsunknown
TDP35 Wvs5 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD A8-5550M
    1891 points
  • Intel Core M-5Y51
    2912 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD A8-5550M
    4201 points
  • Intel Core M-5Y51
    2956 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark06 CPU

  • AMD A8-5550M
    2795
  • Intel Core M-5Y51
    2127

points - higher is better

Cinebench R10 32Bit Single

  • AMD A8-5550M
    2321
  • Intel Core M-5Y51
    3190

points - higher is better

Cinebench R10 32Bit Multi

  • AMD A8-5550M
    5844
  • Intel Core M-5Y51
    5291

points - higher is better

Cinebench R11.5 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD A8-5550M
    0.78
  • Intel Core M-5Y51
    0.96

points - higher is better

Cinebench R11.5 64Bit

  • AMD A8-5550M
    2.05
  • Intel Core M-5Y51
    1.65

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD A8-5550M
    68
  • Intel Core M-5Y51
    84

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD A8-5550M
    188
  • Intel Core M-5Y51
    152

points - higher is better

SuperPI 1M

  • AMD A8-5550M
    31.42
  • Intel Core M-5Y51
    15.45

seconds - lower is better

wPrime 32

  • AMD A8-5550M
    26.02
  • Intel Core M-5Y51
    25.94

seconds - lower is better

WinRAR 4.0

  • AMD A8-5550M
    1932.5
  • Intel Core M-5Y51
    2048

MB/s - higher is better

x264 Pass 1

  • AMD A8-5550M
    70.59
  • Intel Core M-5Y51
    54.87

FPS - higher is better

x264 Pass 2

  • AMD A8-5550M
    13.49
  • Intel Core M-5Y51
    9.19

FPS - higher is better

TrueCrypt AES

  • AMD A8-5550M
    1.3
  • Intel Core M-5Y51
    1.1

GB/s

TrueCrypt Twofish

  • AMD A8-5550M
    0.26
  • Intel Core M-5Y51
    0.18

GB/s

TrueCrypt Serpent

  • AMD A8-5550M
    0.14
  • Intel Core M-5Y51
    0.11

GB/s

Sunspider 1.0

  • AMD A8-5550M
    235.65
  • Intel Core M-5Y51
    128.85

score - higher is better