AMD A10-6800K vs Intel Core i5-5257U

Compare AMD A10-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs Intel 5th Generation Core i5 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1559 points
15% slightly better overall score
1350 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2915 points
13% slightly better gaming score
2561 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1183 points
15% slightly better multitasking score
1022 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1134 points
15% slightly better heavy workload score
981 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.26 points
24.92 points
88% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1136 points
1676 points
47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

479 points
900 points
87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1139 points
1788 points
56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

477 points
925 points
93% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.1 GHz
51% significantly higher clock speed
2.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
41% slightly higher turbo speed
3.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

100 W
23 W
334% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

192 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
128 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
700% significantly more L2 cache
0.5 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

797th of 1,089
856th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A10-Series APU for Desktops
5th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June
2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

A10-6800K vs Core i5-5257U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the A10-6800K beats the Core i5-5257U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-5257U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A10-6800K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-5257U. Also, the A10-6800K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-5257U outputs less heat than A10-6800K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the A10-6800K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-5257U

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 A10-6800K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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