AMD A8-5500 vs Intel Core i5-5257U

Compare AMD 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

1380 points

2% slightly better overall score

1350 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2576 points

0.59% slightly better gaming score

2561 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

1022 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

981 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.88 points

24.92 points

79% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1228 points

1676 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

444 points

900 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

911 points

1788 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

377 points

925 points

145% 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

65 W

23 W

182% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

844th of 1,089

856th of 1,089

Family

The product line

5th Generation Core i5

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

A8-5500 vs Core i5-5257U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-5257U beats the A8-5500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5500 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. The Core i5-5257U outputs less heat than A8-5500 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. Indeed, the A8-5500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.