AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Core i5-3337U

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

908 points
946 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1895 points
1% slightly better gaming score
1866 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

662 points
706 points
6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

637 points
677 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.11 points
79% significantly higher Blender score
10.10 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1047 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
814 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

439 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
394 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1036 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
808 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

425 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
403 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

100 W
17 W
488% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

979th of 1,089
970th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2013 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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No

A8-5600K vs Core i5-3337U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3337U is faster than the A8-5600K. Despite this, the A8-5600K 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 i5-3337U outputs less heat than A8-5600K 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 A8-5600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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