AMD A6-7310 vs Intel Core i7-8500Y

A6-7310 vs Core i7-8500Y comparison

In our benchmarks, the A6-7310 beats the Core i7-8500Y in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8500Y in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the A6-7310 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i7-8500Y that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A6-7310 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8500Y. Despite this, the Core i7-8500Y has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8500Y outputs less heat than A6-7310 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. For instance, the A6-7310 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.