AMD A8-4500M vs Intel Core i7-5500U

Compare AMD 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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$ 30.34

$ 1997.66 significantly less expensive

$ 2028.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

802 points

1149 points

43% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1549 points

2264 points

46% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

600 points

853 points

42% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

575 points

817 points

42% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

10.48 points

17.15 points

63% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

599 points

1720 points

187% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

281 points

872 points

210% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

646 points

1695 points

162% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

288 points

881 points

205% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

15 W

133% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,003rd of 1,089

912th of 1,089

Family

The product line

5th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A8-4500M vs Core i7-5500U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-5500U is faster than the A8-4500M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-4500M 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. The Core i7-5500U outputs less heat than A8-4500M thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 A8-4500M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.