AMD A8-5500B vs Intel Core i5-6198DU

A8-5500B vs Core i5-6198DU comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-6198DU beats the A8-5500B in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5500B in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-5500B has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-6198DU. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the A8-5500B has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-6198DU

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