AMD A8-5500 vs Intel Core i7-4600U

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-4600U

Price

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$ 590.00

$ 2654.00 significantly less expensive

$ 3244.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1380 points

26% slightly better overall score

1087 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2576 points

17% slightly better gaming score

2192 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points

31% slightly better multitasking score

800 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points

31% slightly better heavy workload score

767 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.88 points

16.74 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1228 points

1589 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

444 points

847 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

911 points

1627 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

377 points

880 points

133% 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

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

844th of 1,089

926th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A8-5500 vs Core i7-4600U comparison

In our benchmarks, the A8-5500 beats the Core i7-4600U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4600U 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 i7-4600U 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.

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 A8-5500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.