AMD A10-7850K vs Intel Core i7-5500U

Compare AMD A10-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs Intel 5th Generation Core i7 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-5500U

Price

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$ 134.99

$ 1893.01 significantly less expensive

$ 2028.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1343 points

16% slightly better overall score

1149 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2540 points

12% slightly better gaming score

2264 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1015 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

853 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

973 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

817 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

16.30 points

17.15 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1597 points

1720 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

523 points

872 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1137 points

1695 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

449 points

881 points

96% 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

54% significantly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

33% slightly higher turbo speed

3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

15 W

533% 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

912th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A10-Series APU for Desktops

5th Generation Core i7

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 i7-5500U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A10-7850K performs better than the Core i7-5500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5500U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A10-7850K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-5500U. The Core i7-5500U 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 info from our database shows that the A10-7850K has more L2 cache than the Core i7-5500U

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the A10-7850K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.