AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Core i5-4200U

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 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

0.55% slightly better overall score

903 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1895 points

7% slightly better gaming score

1763 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

662 points

678 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

637 points

654 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.11 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

14.77 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1047 points

1358 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

439 points

691 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1036 points

1401 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

425 points

732 points

72% 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

100 W

15 W

566% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

979th of 1,089

984th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A8-5600K vs Core i5-4200U comparison

In our benchmarks, the A8-5600K beats the Core i5-4200U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4200U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. The Core i5-4200U 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.