AMD A8-5550M vs Intel Core i5-4590. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server
• Family
  AMD A Intel Core i5
• Generation
  3 4
• CPU group
  AMD A8-5000M Intel Core i 4000

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  2.10 GHz 3.30 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.10 GHz 3.70 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Turbo (4 Cores)
  3.10 GHz 3.50 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  AMD Radeon HD 8550G Intel HD Graphics 4600
• GPU frequency
  0.52 GHz 0.35 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.72 GHz 1.10 GHz
• Execution units
  4 20
• Shader
  256 160
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Generation
  5 7.5
• DirectX Version
  11 11.1
• Technology
  32 nm 22 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2013 Q2/2013

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-4590 and AMD A8-5550M. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 DDR3-1600
• Max. Memory
  32 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0
• PCIe lanes
  16

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A8-5550M and Intel Core i5-4590 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  35 W 84 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A8-5550M and AMD A8-5550M, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 6.00 MB
• Architecture
  Richland (Piledriver) Haswell S
• Technology
  32 nm 22 nm
• Socket
  FS1r2 LGA 1150
• Release date
  Q2/2013 Q3/2014