AMD A10-7890K 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

1356 points
0.44% slightly better overall score
1350 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2586 points
0.98% slightly better gaming score
2561 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1021 points
1022 points
0.10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

978 points
981 points
0.31% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.81 points
7% slightly higher Blender score
24.92 points

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

4.3 GHz
38% 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

2
Identical
2

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

853rd 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

2016 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
No

A10-7890K vs Core i5-5257U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A10-7890K is faster than the Core i5-5257U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-5257U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A10-7890K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-5257U. Also, the A10-7890K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-5257U outputs less heat than A10-7890K 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 A10-7890K has significantly more L2 cache than 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 A10-7890K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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