AMD A8-5500B vs Intel Core i7 Q 740

A8-5500B vs Core i7 Q 740 comparison

In our benchmarks, the A8-5500B beats the Core i7 Q 740 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 Q 740 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7 Q 740 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the A8-5500B that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the A8-5500B. Our comparison shows that the A8-5500B has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7 Q 740. The info from our database shows that the A8-5500B has more L2 cache than the Core i7 Q 740

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