AMD A8-5500 vs Intel Core i7-5600U

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 i7-5600U

Price

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$ 590.00

$ 1843.00 significantly less expensive

$ 2433.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1380 points

30% slightly better overall score

1056 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2576 points

22% slightly better gaming score

2095 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points

33% slightly better multitasking score

783 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points

34% slightly better heavy workload score

750 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.88 points

26.29 points

89% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1228 points

1705 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

444 points

875 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

911 points

1765 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

377 points

926 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

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

844th of 1,089

933rd 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 i7-5600U comparison

In our benchmarks, the A8-5500 beats the Core i7-5600U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-5600U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. The Core i7-5600U 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.