AMD A10-7850K 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

1343 points

1350 points

0.52% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2540 points

2561 points

0.83% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1015 points

1022 points

0.69% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

973 points

981 points

0.82% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

16.30 points

24.92 points

52% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1597 points

1676 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

523 points

900 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1137 points

1788 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

449 points

925 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

37% slightly higher clock speed

2.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

29% slightly higher turbo speed

3.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

23 W

313% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

100% 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

860th 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

2014 January

2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

A10-7850K vs Core i5-5257U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-5257U beats the A10-7850K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-7850K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A10-7850K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-5257U. The Core i5-5257U outputs less heat than A10-7850K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the A10-7850K has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-5257U

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the A10-7850K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.