AMD A8-5500 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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$ 590.00

$ 1438.00 significantly less expensive

$ 2028.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1380 points

20% slightly better overall score

1149 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2576 points

13% slightly better gaming score

2264 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points

22% slightly better multitasking score

853 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points

23% slightly better heavy workload score

817 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.88 points

17.15 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1228 points

1720 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

444 points

872 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

911 points

1695 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

377 points

881 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

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

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

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-5500 performs better than the Core i7-5500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5500U 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 i7-5500U 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.

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